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The year’s Review
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May 28, 2009

Every year in every class room we learn about things that we agree with or disagree with. The most controversial topic to disagree on is the theory of evolution. Some believe God did absolutely everything for us and if people disagree they are a spawn of Satin. Others believe that it is a little of both. Least but not last, some believe that natural selection is the correct thing to believe. All of these have a little fact. Gods have been worshiped since man has been alive. They are how things worked. Yet they have never been seen. Others that believe in both are the ones that just don’t really want to disappoint others. They pick both because they don’t want to be wrong. The people who believe in natural selection believe it because everywhere they look there are facts about it. The earth was made in six days in the bible. People were born from Adam and Eve, the first people.
The people who believe in God usually are the ones who care more about people who don’t believe in the same thing. The scientists were not trying to pick a fight when they thought of natural selection. They saw the facts all around them and they told everyone that this is how things are and this is how they will be. The fundamentalists did not like this because it wasn’t what they believed in. Now it has cooled of a little but not a lot. For the most part though, this will never cool down.
The people that believe in a little of both natural selection and God usually don’t know which side to choose. They see the facts from both sides and they cannot make a decision. They see the ludicrous accusations from both sides. The people that believe in both sides are the ones that don’t really care what it is because it doesn’t really matter how, what matters is that we are here now.
People who believe in just natural selection are people who base their opinions on facts. This is a good thing to do but not in the world of ours because of all of the religious people. Facts are what matter in this world. The fact is, the earth is 6 billion years old not 6 thousand. Another fact is that we are not all born from Adam and Eve because our genetics would all be the same meaning that we would all be inbred and we probably wouldn’t even be here to begin with. Natural selection was thought of by Darwin. He discovered this because he didn’t want to believe something that didn’t have any proof what so ever.
Some of the arguments that are touched on a lot with this topic is that god created the earth is six days. This is impossible because the atmosphere has more than one layer of gas and those gas layers are all different ages. When I say different ages I don’t mean that one was created on day four and one was created on the fifth day. These layers of atmosphere are thousands of years apart from each other. Another argument is that God created everything. This is physically impossible for there to be someone floating out in space creating planets. Since the universe is moving at a fast rate there must have been some sort of explosion. The big bang theory is that everything in the universe was all in a ball the size of the point of a pin and exploded. Religious people always say “how did that get there though? There had to have been god to put that there!” They are ultimately setting themselves up because how did god get there?
I still don’t know what to think about evolution. I know the facts and so I lean towards natural selection before I would lean to any other possibility. I do have a feeling however that someone a long time ago who didn’t know a lot about life decided to just blame it on something. Blame isn’t used in a bad way but he didn’t know what was going on or how things worked so he made something up and people fallowed. I believe in God but when you really start to think about it, it is ridiculous to. How is he there? The religious people say he is just there and that’s the way it is. They don’t question it because they know how stupid it is. They know that it isn’t true but they are raised up in that religion and they don’t want to go against it.
In every classroom we have arguments about what is right and wrong. There is absolutely no class that is more controversial about a topic than the theory of evolution. Everyone has an opinion but some are scared to come out with it. Others are too stubborn to see the facts or to look at the other side of things. Me? I stay clear of all sides of the argument. I believe in natural selection but only because it is the only other choice besides a floating guy creating people and planets. Natural selection is the logical choice until maybe someone else in the future brings up a better idea. Until this happens though: I will believe in Natural selection, thought of by Charles Darwin.