Jocelyn Gunter

The book On the Origin of Species was the spark of the theory of evolution. This book single handedly uprooted people’s ideas on science and how the world came to be. Although Darwin’s ideas were not accepted the moment the book was released, it became a huge influence in the world of science. It also challenged many people’s ideas, values, and thoughts on science, and also religion. Evolution is science without a Creator, unless one wants to call fate a god. It challenged the long-standing Christian creation and denied God. With the rise of evolution came the rise of atheists and the absence of God in everyday life. Evolution is still very influential today. It is a staple in public school science, and many scientists and scientific communities are evolutionists and atheists. They are now so popular if one does not conform to their ideas, he is threatened and shunned by the scientific community.

The Origin of Species covers Darwin’s ideas and thoughts on evolution through his studies on the Beagle and other past experiences. His evolution eliminated the need of a divine being to create new species. He believed new species came about through species adapting constantly and constantly evolving to their environments. His main points of major focus in the science community are of natural selection and survival of the fittest. Darwin believes Nature selects the species best at surviving and has the best character traits to continue on. This idea applies to all organisms. These ideas stood the test of science when they were published because modern science did not know much about DNA and genes. However, today much is known by DNA and genes are more is being discovered and researched daily. The study of genomes has shown some holes in Darwin’s ideas.

First, nature may have a sort of influence on the survival of animals, but it can’t control DNA. DNA is hereditary and an offspring could have numerous combinations of the parents’ chromosomes. One parent could have several dominant and recessive genes and the offspring could end up with some or none. Sometimes, depending on the gene, the parent could carry a disease that has never affected them but affects the offspring. An example of this is diabetes. Parents can carry the gene that causes Type 1 Diabetes in their genome, but it may never affect them during their life. The child, however, may be passed this gene and the gene affects him. This gene could only affect every other generation, yet the gene stays within the family line. If natural selection was real, then nature would have removed that gene or the gene would not be passed on to generations. The gene passes on, so natural selection does not apply. Nor does survival of the fittest, because someone with diabetes may not be the fittest, yet they can survive and pass on the gene to their descendants.

The genome shows holes in his reasoning. Modern medicine does this also. Today, one can get a cure for a disease and survive, but she is not the fittest. A cancer patient can survive through drugs like chemotherapy, but the outcome usually is the lack of an immune system. This leaves the person very vulnerable to disease, but she survives. Or another example, like the diabetes gene, would be a family’s tendency to have a type of cancer. Despite cancer killing off some of the family tree, the trait carries on and it is not the trait of the physically fittest. Those who are not the fittest continue to thrive and survive, disproving Darwin’s theory.

Another example of how evolution does not apply today through modern science is people born with mental illnesses. They are not the fittest, yet they survive and pass on the trait of the illness. Nature does not pick out the trait or pick off the weaker being, because if that was the case, wouldn’t the world be a perfect race? No one would have diseases, illnesses, or messed up genes. The human race, the animals and plants, would all be perfect or coming closer to perfection, but instead people find ways to keep around those who are not as fit as themselves. Human kind has become like Nature, by being able to decide who lives, who dies, and what a child will look, have, and act like. Natural selection is definitely not prominent in today’s society and is outdated compared to today’s science.

Another reason Darwin’s evolution is not relevant or right is how Darwin believes animals, such as wolves, fight against one another to survive and eat. In actuality, wolves live in a pack and hunt, eat, and survive together. They only fight between other packs, but they are not on their own for survival. They have a whole pack behind them. It is not one-on-one like Darwin seemed to express.

Another example of how evolution is not right is no one can prove Darwin’s ideas on how the organic, sentient world began. He believed everything came from a single cell. Scientists cannot prove how everything could have come from a single cell, nor can they explain or prove where the single cell came from.

The last argument of proof could easily be thrown against creation, but no one, not even science can explain exactly how everything was made, because no human was there. Rather than fake proof, Christians just trust in their faith and in Genesis 1. It may not be “factual” enough for science, but the story of the event is from the canonical Bible, which has been proven to be very factual by history and science. It is a better source of proof than failing to explain how everything came from nothing on its own means.

Besides evolution being an outdated theory in today’s world, it has always been a harmful theory to Christianity. Before evolution, the explanation of how everything came about was God. When evolution began to take the world by storm, God was pushed out of and banned from science by the majority of the scientific community. This was because Darwin was one of the first people to outwardly speak on the theory there was and is no need for a Creator to create new species. Nature took God’s place and role, and the world came about from nothing and then magically from a single-celled organism. Because of things like the rise of evolution, God and Christianity are rapidly being banned from daily staples in America. Teachers at public schools cannot teach Creationism or pray or really talk about God. Christian students are banned from praying in school, but Muslims can stop to perform their daily call to prayer during school. Since Darwin published his observations and theories, there has been a major shift in religion and morals and values in America.

This shift shows the direct correlation between how evolution is detrimental to Christianity and to the community. If one does not agree with evolution and the popular opinion in the scientific community, the person is shunned and discredited. It is also shown through students raised in public schools. If they have no Christian influence, then they grow up believing strongly in evolution and are nearsighted with their conclusions on the world because they have only been taught one thing their whole lives. They haven’t seen other views on the world and very rarely do these students do their own research. Many scientists who were raised this way only discovered another worldview and were led to Christ by their research. Actually observing and studying the world around can prove evolution wrong, but very few people, other than scientists, are willing to do their own research. This narrowmindedness taught through their high school education is a disadvantage to them in the real world. Unlike public school students, those of a private Christian school, like Summit, have the ability to explore other opinions and worldviews like evolution and make their decisions and judgements about the world because they have a broader and more in-depth view of the world. Evolution and the results of it in the community do not offer these experiences like a school where research on worldviews is encouraged.

Evolution has lost its touch with the modern world, science, and medicine. It should either be changed or thrown out. It makes no sense why it has the effect it still has today. The only explanation is the required teaching of evolution in the public school system. Evolution has hurt the community, education, and the morals of this country.  It is a theory with no actual proof behind it. They cannot prove the theory on the world coming from nothing and single-celled organisms just randomly appearing. They haven’t been able to find the right concoction that would have been available in space to create that first organism. Professor Louis Bounoure, the Director of Research at the National Center of Scientific Research, said the following about evolution: “Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless.” Evolution is being proved more and more as a useless theory, especially because there is no scientific proof. On the other hand, Creationism has a proven history book behind it, the Bible. It is time for America and the scientific community to wake up and realize evolution is only a theory with no proof and is being discredited more and more as science and medicine progress.

Bibliography

Bounourne, Professor Louis. “Quotes against evolution.” BibleWheel.com. BibleWheel.com, 3 Sept. 2012. Web. 9 March 2016.