Creationism

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meet our own personal need� (Sheler 2). Throughout history, humans have been through a gradual accretion rather than one �sporadic event� after another (Tattersal 58). It is only in the United States that this debate is such a conflict. Humans have an impulse to look unto a higher being rather than a human leader who has faults similar to their own. The higher being [God] should be one of pure perfection. It is the development or creation of man which is what is so intriguing, it is the mystery of man. As individuals and as a whole, people tend to get uneasy between their �religious compulses and our [their] unwavering commitment to a
secular society� (Sheler 1). As a contradiction within itself, �we [humans] profess fidelity to traditional morality yet champion individual freedom and resist religious authoritarianism� (Sheler 1). Our own manifestations of how we originated and where we came from, the debate of �the chicken or the egg� is just blurred by the ambiguities ...

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chance (Seely 6). Evidence proves that man has the power to redefine the boundaries while on the contrary, other species are trapped by their biological nature in their way of life (Sabath 1). Darwin and his theory are the
beginnings of the pre-evolutionary trend toward natural philosophy. There is hard evidence, fossils that prove that we came from something. Some people look towards �science and observation describe and [to] measure the multiple manifestations of life� (Gould 6). We are under humanistic thinking because we are but a small thing in this biosphere. Natural selection or mutation is where the majority of change comes from. Though, now because of vaccines, hospitals ...

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