Creationism vs. Transformism
During the first week of September, prior to reading chapter 5, Evolution and Genetics, a friend by the name of Joan and I got into a long conversation about the creation of earth and the existence of god. We talked about how the earth was created according to the Catholic belief and slowly an argument unraveled. Apparently, Joan did not believe in evolution and thought I was nuts! The idea that man and woman were created from god’s hands and dirt was not something I could possibly believe. I started to explain to him about Charles Darwin’s ideas on evolution and how I thought that quite frankly; we were not created in seven days. That conversation ended because he did not want to listen to anything that did not have anything to do with god. Two days later, I finally open up our textbook and turned to the assigned reading homework: chapter 5. As I began to read, I learned that the idea that life was created in 6 days was called Creationism. I then logged onto to my laptop to do further research on this idea and of course the first thing I stumbled upon was a website called creationtheory.org. In this website, it stated that there was a fossil finding in Kenya that dated back between 2 to 3.5 billion years ago. Researchers suggest that the fossil is unlikely to be of our human kind but rather our ancestor. It then began to point out that creationists could not believe in these findings because humans were fully developed at creation. As I began to explore this website and further my reading in chapter 5 I started to understand that the idea of creationism is only believed upon religious people. I thought to myself, wow if I thing the idea of creationism is lunatic, then that made me a believer in evolution. The idea of transformism became clear to me. Darwin and his idea on survival of the fittest sounded like a more believable idea