The Intellect of Man - Introduction

Evolution.

A concept that has plagued the religious mind since it's conception in the mid 1850s. It has given rise to the belief that science has proved that God does not exist, or at least is not needed. The theory challenges the religious intellect to wonder whether the stories of the bible really are true. Did God really create Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden, or is it all just some story, passed down by oral tradition until it was transcribed around 1000 B.C.E., that is meant to tell the history of the civilizations of man-kind?

Some religious minds have come to a compromise with Darwin, they call it theistic evolution: the belief that God used evolution as his tool for creating everything as we know it today. I'll admit, it has promise, some of the current theories about the beginning of life are so far fetched that without a Creator they make little to no sense. So, they believe that God used a process of mass extinction, death, and struggle to create everything in this world we see today.

Other religious minds hold to the view that evolution is a fallacy of the human conscience. Despite all the evidence supporting the theory, they throw about phrases such as "that's just the way it is" and know little to nothing about the actual theory itself. They have no knowledge to back their statements, and receive little to no credibility despite their efforts.

Then there are others who simply believe that evolution is how it is. There is no God. Everything we see today developed by random chance, under circumstances that man has recreated in the lab, so there must not be a higher power. Science has proved their is no God. End of story.

The fourth group is the group about which I most often ponder. They are those who have looked into evolution and know the holes in the theory, know the assumptions around which everything revolves. They see how chaotic the entire theory is, and the crumbling rock that is its foundations. Yet, because the idea of a God, a supreme being and Creator, seems more preposterous to them, they side with evolution because it makes the most sense. In essence, picking the lesser of two evils, because their intellect does not have the capacity of understanding or allowing the existence of God.

And so the world turns.