Around the turn of the century, a man by the name of Darwin cam up with a theory while studying finches on islands in the Pacific. He noticed how the same species changed to adapt to its environment on different islands. He called what he witnessed Evolution. Throughout the 20th century this theory was proven again and again through studies and experiments. Creationists, or those that believe in philosophical perspective that presupposes the existence of a supernatural creator, slowly felt their power wean. People had found a way to explain where man had come from that didn’t conform to their set of beliefs, with science and not religion. Creationism was slowly weeded out of school science classes. By the 90s very few schools even taught Creationism. With the presumable loss of the bible’s hold on the teaching of science in American classrooms conservatives needed a new way to get their religion back. For this they brought up intelligent design, saying life was too complicated to be created by chance, that life must have been created by some sort of master creator, a.k.a. God.

What follows will be an exploration centering on the nature of biological origins and the various explanations of their existence in terms of two central points of view and the ensuing problems that have resulted from this ongoing discussion. Today there rages a long and colorful debate between the empirical and mystical or more precisely those who believe that species are a product of natural processes (evolution) as opposed to others who espouse an omnipotent causative force (intelligent design). This polarization has led to heated differences of opinion affecting the development of our social systems most notably religion and science. Without a practical understanding of the issues at hand informative discussion becomes vague and unproductive.
The founding fathers while drafting the Constitution felt that it was necessary to separate Church and State in what we now know as the First Amendment. It is interesting to note that this particular period in history was relatively speaking conservative by religious standards yet these men recognized a fundamental inconsistency with these two powerful forces. They drew upon their experience with British Colonial government and the tome of the “ages” the Bible. However, British government in of itself was a limited monarchy modified from “The Divine Right of Kings.” Arguably the Founding Fathers learned from historical precedent that it was necessary to define the parameters of government exclusive of these two factors while respecting their existence and the individual’s “right” to exercise their personal freedoms.
Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist,