Evolution: Myth or Truth?

veryone has an opinion in this war. Most people either believe in a creationist God or believe in evolution without a god. However, there are some who believe that God used evolution to create the world. Let’s delve into some possibilities or scenarios using facts and logic.

Alright, first let’s take a look at two different types of evolution: gradual change and punctuated equilibrium. We’ll start off by taking a look at gradual change. Gradual change was originally thought up by Darwin. These changes, according to him, occurred throughout all the animals and at a constant rate. I have not even skimmed the surface of all of Darwin’s research of possibilities, but I will stop talking about gradual change here. The main reason for this is because of its major flaw: there are not enough intermediate links, if any, to prove that this change happened. There are also other reasons which I’ll state later on.

Please note that punctuated equilibrium can and actually is considered a form of gradual change. Let’s just assume, though, that this punctuated equilibrium is different. Normally, scientists consider a slow mutation or evolution to be gradual and a fast one to be punctuated. Punctuated equilibrium, which is much more likely to be true than gradual change, is the fast mutations in different animals over a short period of time. For mutations to occur in an animal’s DNA, the environment that the animals are in must be perfect and its DNA must randomly change. This type of evolution could explain why we don’t have any intermediate links between the species, since there was not enough time for the intermediate links to fossilize, which the conditions for that are rare. However, there is another problem and here it is: DNA rarely mutates and when it does, it does not do it all by itself. Not only that, but there has also never ever been a mutation recorded in history that has been beneficial to an animal or creature. All mutations either harm or have a neutral effect on the “mutationee.”

Scientifically and theoretically, it is possible for evolution to have happened; however, the definition of “evolution” is “change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.” [Dictionary.com] So therefore, we can logically conclude that there had to have been one organism which was there before all the others.