Heather's Journal

Thursday, September 30, 2004

what I already know or think about evolution

The theory of evolution by Charles Darwin has been around for many years and is gaining more believers of the theory everyday. Many people make jokes about this theory, the fact of humans ever being apes is humorous to the masses, but there are large amounts who do believe in it. Most scientists would bet their life works on the fact that we all evolved from apes, but there is no solid proof. Evolution is not entirely false of course, there is evidence to prove that, but the theory of evolution is by all means incorrect.

There is a good comparison to the theory of Evolution in our society which involves the “Jesus fish” if you will, for the back of cars. I see the Darwin fish on cars, making fun of the Christian belief of creationism. These people, I must assume, believe in the Darwin's theory. The fish emblem on the other hand being mocked with Darwin inside, doesn’t make sense, it is like advertising, “I am not a Christian,” because that is what the fish symbol means u are a Christian. If Christians drove around with “I am not a Muslim” stickers, there would be trouble and probably a law suit. This is just like the theory of evolution itself, though. When looked clearly into it doesn't make sense, yet people let it go and it is part of our daily society and shouldn’t be.

Wouldn't something as obvious and important as apes evolving into humans stick out in history? There would be something more helpful in connecting the two besides the fact we have the same hand shapes and opposable thumbs. We walk up right on two legs like birds do, but no one has jumped to the conclusion of us having evolved from birds. Scientists have already come to the conclusion that life had to start somewhere and at a particular point. This leads to the creationism belief of a supreme creator. Creationism makes sense in this likeness of creatures, because there are no links between them, meaning they did evolve from one another, the Creator just created some similarly. Just think, if you were making something, like a puzzle, many pieces would have similarities, because there are only so many options. Now imagine trying to concoct an entire universe. You think God wouldn’t have done a few things more than once or put them in use in different ways? Even with these apparent thoughts though, Scientists still believe in Darwin's theory and are searching everyday to prove they are correct to the world. If the Scientists want something truly compelling to study, although I do not agree with this, they should study how God originated, but they can’t accept the fact we have discovered the very foundation of life and have known it for as long as humans existed.

I do not think evolution is all false, there must be some evolution in existence for the human skull to have shaped as it did over time. Our heads use to have very large brows to protect us from the sun, but as humans learned how to block the sun we began to lose it. There is also the evidence of such useless organs as the appendix. These things prove there is some "evolution," but in no way do they prove the theory of evolution. This theory says we all life is linked and we have all evolved from previous species, like a giant chain reaction. There are so many missing links though it is impossible for this to ever be a scientific law or something along those lines. The theory of evolution is and will remain just that, a theory.