FREE ESSAY ON CREATIONISM VS. EVOLUTION

CREATIONISM VS. EVOLUTION

Creationism vs. Evolution
The majority of people in this world believe that a spiritual being created earth. In
fact, most religions and cultures believe the universe was created by a 'creative hand,'
either a sky god or some other physical object (Encarta 1). Think of it, as a trial to
see which will win, creation or evolution. It has been the most argued debate in all of
history, but creationism is more logical than evolution.
To first understand what creation is about, we have to know what creation is. The Bible
defines creation as the action by God that brought the universe and all its contents into
being. The Bible also states, God created great whales and every living creature that
moveth, and so God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male
and female created he them (Genesis 1:21, 27). To Doug LaPointe, the author of Top
Evidences against the Theory of Evolution, there are nine articles of evidence pointing
weaknesses in evolution, or strong points in creation. The first evidence is that there
are no links between the fossil record and present times; therefore, there is nothing to
show that evolution actually happened. Second, that natural selection cannot advance an
organism to a higher order. The third being that although evolutionists believe life just
came about, matter resulted from nothing, and humans evolved from animals, all of these
are against scientific and natural understandings. Fourth, even though evolutionists
present them as if they were, the hominids' bones and skull records, for example the
famous Lucy, the finds are unrevealing and inconsistent. The fifth and sixth articles of
evidence are the nine out of 12 hominids that evolutionists use are really extinct apes,
and the other three are modern human beings and not part ape. This would conclude that
all of the twelve 'hominids' are something other than hominids and are not half-human,
half-ape. Evidence seven and eight show that natural selection has practical, social, and
logical inconsistencies. The last evidence says that the rock strata finds are better
explained by a universal flood than by evolution, which would show yet more proof in the
Bible (LaPointe 1-2). Michael Behe, author of the recent bestseller Darwin's Black Box,
states, I was amazed that people believe in evolution when there was this clear argument
against it (Behe 3). At first Darwinism was taught at schools, but there were so many
flaws that these ideas were turned down, and a different form of evolution was taught.
The new form was then taught along with a type of scientific creation (Encarta 2). This
shows that schools feel that Darwin was wrong, and Darwin is evolution's top scholar.
In order to disprove a way of thinking we must first know what we are trying to disprove.
The definition of evolution is the complex process by which living organisms originated
on earth and have been diversified and modified through sustained changes in form and
function (Encarta 2). Thomas Robert Malthus first stated that the human population was
growing too fast for the food supply. This, he said, Is regulated by disease, famine, and
war (Infopedia 1). Darwin applied this to animals and plants and came up with the theory
of evolution by natural selection. His theory stated that the children of a species
intensely compete for survival. Those young that survive to produce the next generation
tend to be embodying favorable natural variations and these variations are passed on by
heredity. Therefore, each generation will improve adaptively over the preceding
generations, and this gradual and continuos process is the source of the evolution of the
species (Infopedia 1-2). The notion that populations of organisms can be transformed over
generations into descendant population of different kinds has been suggested repeatedly
since the early-recorded history of ideas, but if you trace all the species back to their
origin, you would get one object. Now the real part of this argument is right here. How
did that one object come into being? It couldn't have happened by mere chance. It did not
always exist so there had to be nothing before it. If there was nothing before it, how
was it created? Now some would like to say that it was created by the Big Bang, but if
you look at the Big Bang theory, it is suggesting that the one object did not just appear
that it was created by the Big Bang. This is a contradiction because the Big Bang is
supposed to have just 'happened' (Encarta 1). The other contradiction to this statement
is that by the laws of science matter has to come from other matter, but the Big Bang
theory used by scientists states that the first matter just happened at the Big Bang and
came from nothing.
Now that we have the facts, we should be able to look at it from an atheistic point of
view, and be able to easily crush the argument that the earth might have just happened
and evolved into present day. This argument without a doubt shows proof of a Creator.
There had to be a Creator because even by the scientific or atheistic point of view, it
is not possible for something to come from nothing. So that something, that existence
came from God, the Creator.
Works Cited
Befe, Dr. Michael. The Evolution of a Skeptic. The Real Issue. --: Leadership U., 1197.
Encarta. Creation. Microsoft Corp., 1998.
Encarta. Evolution. Microsoft Corp., 1998.
Holy Bible. King James Version. Camden, New Jersey: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1972.
Infopedia. Darwin, Charles Robert. Softkey Multimedia Inc., 1996.
LaPointe, Doug. Top Evidences Against the Theory of Evolution. Lakewood, New 
Jersey: Calvary Academy, 1995.