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Origins of species

 

            
             Many cultures have their specific creation stories. Sometimes certain people come up with their own ideas, of how the world was created, and the role of the Creator. One man had his own ideas, backed up with inductive and deductive arguments. He made his discoveries public. This aroused a lot of controversy, especially in the Church. Charles Darwin was his name, and he explains his view of the role of the Creator in the development of life, in his book, The Origin of Species. How does the role of this Creator differ from more traditional ways? While tackling this subject, my personal response on this conception of the Creator will be included.
             Before Charles Darwin wrote his theory of evolution by natural selection, people had other ways of explaining living things. No scientific theory, it was assumed (and especially not an exclusively materialistic one), could adequately explain living things, especially human beings, without reference to a divine Creator or designer (Tordjman.p34). Some used the argument of intelligent design to prove the existence of a Creator. Their views were that the world was so complex and intelligent, how else could these things have been made? The design was so intelligent; it could have only been a designer behind all these creations.
             Darwin had two conceptions of the Deity (supernatural Creator or God). The first was that a Creator, created a few forms in the beginning and those forms evolved by themselves. He states it like so, "[ ]he has gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms[ ]" (Tordjman.p.49). In other words, we have evolved from a common ancestor. We are the product of evolution. For example, humans have evolved from the same common ancestor as the chimp. Many people get confused and misunderstand this theory. These people see the chimp-human evolution the wrong way.


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