There is no doubt that evolution is a challenge for those who seek the truth and facts about it… those who are truly serious about finding out what’s all the fuss about… why are we accused of being monkeys…The idea of evolution was even a problem for Darwin himself… but Darwin had the courage to choose science over superstitious.
Evolution also puts many issues under the spot.. moral and philosophical issues. That is why it is very hard to accept such an idea, even among many intellectual individuals, Specially those with religious beliefs.
More interesting, some religious groups suggested that evolution does not conflict with religion as we shouldn’t explain the story of Adam and eve literarily.
My issue here isn’t about the conflict between evolution and religion. I just want to explain some points about evolution that have been misunderstood.
Evolution simply means that we –humans – and all other forms of life, are the outcomes of nature’s mechanisms. The reason that makes us think we’re different is itself an outcome of evolution (our highly complicated brains). We tend to think that we are on top of life’s tree according to our brains, even though elephants have more efficient noses than ours, tigers have better and stronger legs that ours. We are not the best.. each organism is the best in its own environment.
Through evolution, viruses and insects have proven to be stronger and lasted more through all times, which makes them more efficient than mammals to live on earth. In fact they lasted more than any kind.
This is a link to some of the criticism used against evolution and its answers … this was published in scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000D4FEC-7D5B-1D07-8E49809EC588EEDF
To be continued…
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