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Once I was sitting in a dark corner of the world…okay, I was sitting in my brightly-lit biology class at the unearthly hour of eight o’clock in the morning. Anyway, we were learning about evolution and Darwin’s theory and all that shit, really, and my Christian friend was sitting next to me and rolling her eyes because she’s Christian and believes that God made everything and therefore Darwin’s theory of evolution is falsified propaganda.
Okay, on one hand we have that religious belief that God made everything on one hand and on the other hand we have the scientific theory which can’t really be ignored because it’s scientifically proven, as in logically, without a doubt, or at least without most doubts.
So who do we believe: the religious fanatics or the logical scientists?
Well, in my opinion, both are right.
(By the way, I apologize to the religious fanatics for my biased way of putting out these two theories and for making the scientific theory seem like the more fair one, but in truth I have personally been struggling with this theory myself a while back because I’d rather believe the religious one but common sense dictated that I should believe the scientific theory and I felt really bad that I felt the scientific one made more sense than the religious one. And, anyway, I don’t really like religious fanatics and take every opportunity to poke fun at them. Sorry. That doesn’t mean I don’t respect religion, just that one of my vices are being easily irritated by fanatics of any kind. Oh no, now I’m becoming one of those superior I-don’t-make-apologies-for-my-stinking-opinions kind of people. Sorry about that. I’m just as normal as anyone else. Honest. I like Pop Tarts too.).
Okay, now putting aside all disclaimers, apologies, and digressions, back to the theory of which is right: the religious theory of how life began or the scientific theory of how life began.
Like I said, both are right.
Okay, so according to science, all objects first came from the ocean, and that our earliest ancestors were totally microscopic bacteria or something like that, right? And from then on we slowly evolved from these bacteria things to boneless (sorry, I forgot the correct word) creatures then on to fish or whatever fossils we see lying around, and slowly became creatures who crawled out onto the shore and were like reptiles before going on to orang-utan like mammals (well, for the ones who eventually evolved into humans or mammals anyway) before finally becoming on to becoming Neanderthals before finally evolving into human beings. More or less, this is the scientific theory of evolution and how life began in a vague sort of way without any real scientific references and my vague memories of science evolution lesions and readings and movies, with all that stuff thrown in about survival of the fittest and gene pools and all that shit. And, oh yeah, we were kind of latecomers to earth because dinosaurs came first.
Now, according to religion, and for this I will use the basic beginning of life as taught in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish religions with apologies to other religions such as Buddhism or Hinduism or etc., for the simple reason that I am more familiar with the beginning of life taught in those religions than in the others. God made everything in seven days and he also made man and woman and gave them power over everything else (another difference with the scientific theory which reminds us that we are not the all-powerful in the world of nature), and the first man and woman made were Adam and Eve and they were not Neanderthals or reptiles but human beings like the ones we are now, so that means human beings ruled over everything from the start and did not have to go through an evolution process.
Now, first of all, who is to say that just because God made everything, there wasn’t an evolution process? I mean, even when we create a painting, we have to start somewhere, don’t we, there’s always that first line to be drawn. So the first drawn line in a painting is like that first microscopic bacteria in the ocean. The Bible or Koran or whatever says that God made everything in seven days and that the water creatures and birds were created all in the fifth day while land creatures and human beings were made on the sixth day. But one day for God may be a completely different time concept from our one day. If God is truly powerful, then surely he could have created a human being or some animal in a day. And all those evolution processes like the bacteria and the Neanderthal were like his rough drafts of the final complete picture. (And for a bit of thinking here, we may still be one of the final drafts and not yet a complete picture, since evolution is still going on).
After all, they do say that a day to us is like hundreds of years or something, I’m not sure of the exact math, to God, so you know, God could have gone through all those rough drafts of evolution processes in one day, it makes perfect sense. After all, God is God, with supercool powers!
So the conclusion is that both the scientific theory and the religious theory so far can co-exist in peace. And that gene pool thing. What’s this about random gene pools and survival of the fittest which caused that certain branch of creature life to evolve into human-like beings and eventually into real human beings instead of a bird or lizard or something else? How do we know that it was random and that God didn’t pick the genes which made a human on purpose? Or, if you want to include all possibilities, that God was the one who made the random choices of the gene pool which created a human being? So that’s another way the religious theory and the scientific theory could have worked together for evolution/creation of human beings/all creatures of life.
I hope I am making sense so far?
Now for another thing. My high school science teacher was once explaining the concept of how the body worked – you know, how every little organ or DNA or cell or whatever played a part in the major machine that is the human body, and she said something like, “Now, once you see how everything in the human body, even the most minor detail, is created with a purpose so that everything comes together and works so well together that when one looks at something like the human body, how can you deny the presence of a higher and much intelligent God who thought out every single detail of the body?”
Which is really true, you know. Surely there must have been someone out there in the beginning who thought out all these little parts of the body and worked them together in this fantastic way which enables us to breathe and eat and think and talk and so on and put it all together to become a living creature?
So, in conclusion, we are not denying that we breathe because that’s how our lungs or automatic system or cells or whatever worked and not because God wanted us to, but maybe God wanted us to breathe and so purposely created the lung and the auto system and all that so we would breathe automatically just the way God wanted us to.
Now, for another thing. That Adam and Eve coming out of the garden thing. According to religion, God drove Adam and Eve out of the garden and they had to go live without all the good pleasures of heaven and all that. Now, I know Eve is suppose to be the mother of all human beings, but how did Cain and her third son, Seth, get their wives and how did their children get their husbands and wives? It surely couldn’t be all through incestuous marriage because, well if you follow the recordings chronologically, Cain got married before Eve gave birth to Seth and all the rest of their children. So there must be other human beings living outside the Garden of Eden, which God made, who ended up marrying Cain and Seth and all their kids. Anyway, I think that perhaps Adam and Eve were mainly the forbearers of all Jewish people. Maybe some of their kids or grandkids (after all, the Adam and Eve line had a lot of children) migrated over the ocean or lands or whatever and had their children with other people that God had made and thus created other different races, or married other people who were of other races. And besides, when God sent Cain away because he had killed Abel, he said that if he had to go wandering through other lands, other people might kill him. So there you go: there’s proof there were other human beings around besides Adam and Eve and their kids.
And for the finale, one thing which both science and religion got right. That fish thing. Science says the first creatures came from life. Well, according to the recordings, the water creatures were made on the fifth day, before the birds (which came after the water creatures on the fifth day) and the humans and animals (who were made on the sixth day). So both theories had it right about creatures coming from the water first. Although I’m not so sure about the plant part. I’m not sure if science agrees with religion that the plants came before the water creatures. I’m no botanist. That’s for someone else to figure out.
So that’s my theory of how the real creation of life as it is now came about, with a mix of both religious and scientific theories and all my vagueness and non-referencing and possibly some mistakes and assumptions which might rile up a few religious or scientific fanatics (yeah, I don’t like ‘em scientific fanatics much either) and probably several other extra points left out like how this all ties in with Noah and the ocean and the dinosaurs’ extinction and all the rest but I’ll get to it later. When I feel like it. Now let's go breath some opium or drink some Love.