Mankind: Evolution vs. Creation

Over the last couple of centuries, Evolution had been taught as the basis on how mankind had become the dominate species on the earth. It had been stated in numerous book that “evolutionary change takes place over the course of many generation, and individual organisms cannot evolve in a single life time.” In some documentaries and movies, evolutionists claim that mankind evolved through the cave men. And even further back from one cell amoebas. Over millions of year’s mankind evolved to a point where they worship God. In an article “Genetic Basis of Evolution” the subheading ‘Mutation’ states “Genes themselves are continually being modified through a process called mutation . . . for evolution to occur, the forces of natural selection must distribute that trait to other members of a population.” (Microsoft Encarta 2000) According to Darling Kindersley, the human skull changed dramatically during the past 3 million years. As the skull evolved from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens, the capacity of the cranium increased to accommodate the growth of the brain, the face flattened, the chin recessed, and the size of the teeth decreased. The scientists believe that the incredible growths in the size of the brain may be related to the increasing sophistication of hominine behavior.

Given that little information, one would wonder, ‘If that is the case, why don’t we see any of the lower animals evolving? Or, where are those animals that have evolved to a point to just below mankind?’ One would wonder. An American geneticist and zoologist named Theodosius Dobzhansky who made contributions to the field of genetics. His studies in population genetics, performed mainly with the fruit fly, served as a basis for his explanation of how the evolution of races and species may have come through adaptation. Adaptation word used by biologists in two different senses, both of which imply the accommodation of a living organism to its environment. One form of adaptation, called physiological adaptation, involves the acclimatization of an individual organism to a sudden change in environment.

It is believed that humans evolved from ape ancestors between 5 million and 8 million years ago. Many species of humans followed, but only some descendants on the branch leading to homo sapiens. It was Charles Darwin who had laid the foundation of modern evolutionary theory with his concept of the development of all forms of life through the slow-working process of natural selection. During his time on the Beagle, he realized that some of his observations of fossils and living plants and animals cast doubt on the view that species were specially created. He noted observed that certain fossils that was supposed to be extinct closely resembled living species in the same area.