The Religion called Evolution

By Duncan Long
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Back in the 1700 and 1800s when science was bringing mankind into the modern era with the 
advances in medicine, physics, and mathematics which paved the way for the industrial and 
information revolutions, scientists generally had a profound belief in God and often searched for 
their answers to problems with an eye toward finding out how the Creator had designed his 
creation and what rules governed it. Religion and science had little trouble coexisting (except for 
an occasional squabble from time to time) since both the scientists and religious thinkers were 
basically exploring different sides of the same coin.

This started to change in the late 1800s when Charles Darwin proposed what would become 
commonly known as the theory of evolution or the survival of the fittest.
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Yes it seems that Darwin certainly has amassed a following. Some of his adherents are so loyal to his teachings that they just simply deny anything that remotely speaks of a creator.

It seems that we as people do indeed follow. Whether we follow God through his prophets, or man-made-science through their prophets, we are like sheep and we follow.

I personally have no problem with science when it is conducted or taught in a truthful way. I just think that many people use science for their agenda and pre-defined beliefs thereby inhibiting truth. I am just not willing to sign up for the religious side of science. The one that says in the beginning there was nothing and nothing exploded and became this really little something that grew to be a really really big something and then formed all kinds of things like bananas and people who could acknowledge the existence of the universe.

For me, I have a faith in God and I love science when it is not being used in a religious fashion. I think both are important. One exercises my faith and heart, and the other my mind. But both lead me to give glory to the creator of all.

Science and Faith can co-exist. After all it did once, so why not now?

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