By design

It has been a couple of times now that I have over the years written about how I managed to streamline the teachings of my school concerning the theory of evolution {Darwinism} and the biblical version of where we all came from {God}- Also taught in my school {thank you welholme infants and have grammar in Grimsby}. On reflection, this was quite a lot to make board for a child and often confusing seeing as, on the one hand the science teacher, Mr. meek was telling us that the world was billions of years old and we evolved by natural selection and on the other hand, sometimes only minutes later the RE {Religious Education} teacher was telling us that the world was 6,000 years old and that it, along with us human beings, were made by god in six days. In my childish simplicity decided that god must have created the world by causing a big bang and he must have made that first amoeba. That did very nicely for me, thank you I’d got my God and evolution on one page

At school, If you are wise, you simply listen and learn to pass exams. But sometime later, this paradox has to be sorted out in everyone’s mind, no matter what faith. We cannot ignore that fossils dating back far longer than 6,000 years have been found. This alone makes one stop and question what dear Misskitchener was trying to ding into us

And lam not alone in this line of thinking.

Indeed, there are those people who take the Bible as the written word of God and believed emphatically what is written in there-interpreted by themselves or a trusted pastor, vicar, priest, chaplain, etc despite all the evidence that the world has existed a lot longer than 6000years.

And there are those who disregard God, the Supreme Being and the teaching of his followers, just as emphatically.

 And so there we have it: science verse religion.

Presently, notably in the United state of America, there is a debate raging that is pitching science against religion. In 20 and more states moves are being made to include the concept of intelligent design, as it is called in science classes.

Intelligent design is the idea that all living things we see around us, from humans down to bacteria, are too complicated to have been produced by natural processes. In stead, the theory maintains that some designer- most say it was God- produced the blueprint for all the cells and organism on Earth.