Creation, Evolution And Intervention: Which Theory Is Correct?

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into different organisms
has been suggested many times since the early 1800s, when scientists began
looking for evidence that the evolution process took place. "The most
outstanding evolutionists in the nineteenth century was Jean Baptist de Lamarck,
who argued that the patterns of resemblance arose through modifications of a
common lineage-for example , that lions tigers and others all descendant from a
cat like ancestor." (Dickey p.42) It had already been a widely accepted theory
that different animals adapt to different modes of life and environmental
conditions. Lamarck argued that physical and mental changes occurred from animal
adaptations to different environments. Once the animal changed, Lamarck
believed that the changes would be passed on to the offspring through genes.
Unfortunately this theory was never really scientifically tested.

Charles Darwin successfully explained the evolutionary process , with his
famous book On The Origins of a Species by Means of Natural ...

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of an existing thing out
of no preexisting material".(Dickey 237) In the bible and in other comparable
ancient literature, creation is a theme used to explain how human beings came to
earth. In the bible and most other creation stories from ancient religions,
the universe is said to be a great mess in which order was introduced by a God.
In the bible, it states that the creator cleaned up the world and organized
everything such as the stars and the day from night. In many ancient cultures
the stories tend to be similar and differ only in terms of places and figures.

Other ideas of creation include myths of emergence. According to the bible,
earth, all of its species and the ...

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