What is creation?

[Davy Mellado]

Blossoming from Charles Darwin and his theory of Evolution, the meaning and significance of existence has always been a question that leads to more questions. How does one respond when asked, "what do you live for?" There's a thousand different ways you can handle that. But what is a misconception with Darwin's work is that he discovered that a seed can transform, but it cannot produce itself. When his paper entitled, "The Origin of Species" came out, people said he killed God. But quite the contrary, he didn't. If anything he heled the theologians out there, Because he proved that the seed planted in the ground was so specifically designed that it could mutate and be warped. 

Like a computer, if a computer program could watch an iTunes visualizer and believes that it's holy and divine, are they going to lose their faith when they find out a human architect created the equation for organized randomness and beauty? No, they will more so appreciate that the architect made it for them, and further appreciate that that architect is smarter than they are. SO really, the question here is what do you think Darwin had in mind when he wrote the paper? Why did so many think of it as controversy? What do you live for?

[Kristina Lopez]

Although most of my very religious family does not believe in evolution, I do. I remember reading the book "Inherit the Wind" which was all about the issue of evolution. One line in the book said that believeing in God's creation and evolution can be possible. We dont know how long one day was back then, it could have been thousands of years.

[JohnPaulus V Arcangel]

I am a very scientific person. For petes sake I wear a lab coat to school religiously. But I am also a very religous person. I belive that science explains how, rather than why. And I am proevolution.

Say your walking along a beach of a completely new planet. And as your walking down, you find a computer there. Do you ask" Who built that, and put that there???" or "how was that made???" To me religion explains the first question, and science explains the second one.   

[Nick Fallico]

I think its crazy that people won't believe in this and think its against God. God planted the seeds and darwin charted how the seeds grew and formed to what they are now. Even if you don't believe what he says, he is right. He didn't make the animals change over time, he just observed that they had.

[Patrick Witt]

I think Darwin was simply stating that different species and animals stem from other species and animals. I don't think he was trying to take a shot at religion in any way. I wouldn't know for sure because I think some of the ways we are taught about it are misinterpreted and poorly explained or not explained enough. I haven't read his work and refuse to fully believe any of it until I do so, but I do think he was a very innovative thinker of his time. I also don't really like the discussion of how we got here. It becomes more of a battle than anything. I like to never question it and just enjoy the fraction of time we spend in this place.

[Alex Costigan]

Darwin was a genious, and his observations were essential in knowing what we do today about life, man, and the earth.  I believe in evolution and God at the same time.  Over time, even the Catholic church has accepted forms of evolution and Darwin's other theories, justifying them with what is written in the bible.

[Ben Perkins]

when reading inherit the wind, the author made all the christians in the book seem selfish and non open-minded, kind of how many history books portray people of different religions. Science never really seems to be struck down as much anymore. Obviously there are failures in science, but it seems like religion gets bashed on more.

[Lauren Olson]

I heard that Darwin was actually a Christian and his wife was a devout Catholic, so he was hesitant to publish his work becuase he believed people would misunderstand it. I think the public interpenetration of his theory is total crap. Every year when we talk about it in class, i just roll my eyes.