Creationism
...the King James Version of the Bible. As the rest of the story goes, God created Earth and all of it’s inhabitants within 6-days. This belief if the foundation of the Creationist theory, which in recent history has been proposed to contradict Darwin’s theory of evolution and the concept of natural selection. Darwin’s theory of evolution, which is taught in every high school biology course, is a “scientific theory initially put forth by 19th century British naturalist Charles Darwin. His theory proposes that all modern life forms have gradually developed over the course of thousands or millions of years.” (“Update: Evolution and Creationism” 3) This theory is widely accepted by the scientific community and educators and has been included in science curriculums to explain the evolution of all life including human beings. Recently, a third belief of creation has come fourth to make it’s way into pubic debate, school curriculums, and court steps which is called intelligent design. The primary supporters of intelligent design share the same roots with supporters of creationism, and the “fundamental premise is that certain features of living organisms are too complex to have evolved without the direct intervention of an intelligent designer.” (Biever 1) The “designer” remains anonymous, yet corresponds closely with God.
Now that we have the introduction of the various topics discussed, let’s look closely at the controversy at hand. As stated above, the theory of evolution is a scientific tested theory used as a foundation in our nation’s schools as part of the science curriculum. Intelligent design is a belief that recently, has been given enough support through it’s proponents and political supporters that they insist that this belief should either replace the theory of evolution or taught alongside the theory of evolution as an alternate concept to explain...
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