The Creation of God and Man

Genesis and evolution are two very different ways of looking at the reasons how humans are here. These contradict each other and have caused major problems between the church and science. There are many examples of the obstacles that they have imposed in each other, and this will be referring to Inherit the Wind, a film based on the troubles a teacher has to go through to get his message across. The teacher goes through a trial that is supposed to determine whether his evolution and Darwin lessons should be allowed or not. But, just as everything in life, there is always a verdict and in this case, science had much more advantage than the church.

The stories in the Bible are all good for inspiring people to do good and to be the best they can be to receive recognition. However, this doesn’t mean that Genesis is right. Genesis is just the justification for the rest of the Bible. How can one not start at the beginning?

An argument that the opposition in the trial used was “Man did not create God, God created Man.” This should be right if you’re citing the Bible, but what about real evidence? What about the actual events that took place and there’s proof for it? Not everything is as simple as it seems and obviously, the Bible makes it look so simple and effortless on God’s part that people ignore the truth. If man did not create God, then who did? This is something that the Bible doesn’t question nor answer. How is it that whoever wrote the Bible is so accurate recounting the events that took place while God was creating this world if no humans even existed yet? If it was not man who created God, yet it was man who wrote the Bible, how do these two things connect? Man, wasn’t around yet at the time of creation, which only leads us to believe that God, telepathically told someone about all this. However, all things just corroborate the fact that the Bible isn’t an accurate or precise source of information on the how humans came to be. Anything that contradicts itself is bound to be wrong, this argument from the proposition explains this “If in the beginning it was just Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, were did this woman come from?” (on Cain’s wife who just spontaneously appears).

Evolution is a more believable theory. Not only does it have physical proof but it also connects events with the actual evidence. Those who believe in evolution are not trying to impose themselves, they’re just proving a point, while the church is very intent on reassuring everyone that they are the only authority who can determine what is right and what is wrong. Yet the church has become more powerful and losing believers to a new theory of “creation” would be terrible, so instead they put obstacles on their opponents and make them go through hell (very different than what the Bible says). The proposition uses this, “The bible is a book, it is a good book, but it is not the only book” to prove a point effectively.

Evolution is a great theory that proves not only the existence of man but of the rest of the species, so teaching it should not be something to be accused of. Evolution in Inherit the Wind receives scorn from the church, which probably feels threatened by it, since its so much more accurate than their theories.