Personal philosophy.
I've been teaching evolution for a while and have some comments to make.
The evolution versus creationist debate seems to me to be futile. One camp says that nothing can be a fact or 100% sure, not even our own existence. The other camp often claims to know everything about a lot of things and whatever they don't know (because they haven't researched it most likely) they dismiss.
The happy people, who do the most for mankind seem to live in the middle: they are humble enough to admit that they are often wrong and then ask you if you're thirsty and grab you a glass of water.
The bitter scientists will ask what kind of water it is so as to crucify the happy middle of the road person while the religious person will say the most important thing is that the receiver say the sinner's prayer before receiving or even after receiving the glass of water.
Listen: in the end our treatment of each other is what matters most. I'm so glad to hang out with people at my school and in my personal life who love to debate but who do not take things personally or write others off for their opinions.
Evolutionists say their theories are facts, with enough data they are an established fact.
The die-hard religionists will say the evolutionists are wrong.
Faith is not based on fact, no matter what religion you are from.
Facts can help faith, just as they do evolution. Anyone who has experienced a miracle or the closeness of a Higher Power knows this.
The cause of miracles, the mechanisms of evolution may never be agreed upon. And that's the key. Will your personal beliefs help or hinder society?
The end of all this should be treating others the way you want to be treated; developing your talents for the good of others. To help each other out.
And it's a scary thing to figure out the why's instead of just the how.
Live your own life, don't compare yourself to anyone else. And use some common sense. Problem is, it's hard to practise what you preach :)
2 comments:
Well, I don't see why religionists can't believe in both fait and evolution. For example, the prime religion, Christianity, according to Genensis, the order of the creations and living things fit exactly with the geological time scale. And according to the bible, God made all that in SIX days, according to the time scale, it's billions of years. Doesn't that show that God's time is obviously different to ours? (even in the bible, they keep mention god will answer in HIS time) Thus, between each DAY, there could be hundreds of millions of years of OUR earth time. There could be A LOT of change during that period. Additionally, according to the bible, god created the second creature for every living thing later on. Thus, at first, the only way to reproduce would be Asexual reproduction wouldnt it? And a lot of the primitive living things did reproduce asexually. Evolution is change or something for the living thing for better survival (or sumthing like that). Thus, natural selection would make sense. Overall, why does evolution have to be against the bible? Why can't they see it as something thats making the bible even more truthful? Even adam to people today would've had a lot of evolution in between. Adam, wasnt born, was hand made, thus no belly button. But according to science, it's the gene that matters, thus all his decendents still have belly buttons. Science proved a lot of the bible truthful. That's all I gotta say.
to the former statement my thoughts exactly,wonder why ?
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