[center] [img=http://cdn2.hellogiggles.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/03/Creationism-vs-Evolution.jpg] [/center] [b]EDIT: Hey! check out your third choice i added below not mentioned in the title[/b] By far, one of the biggest debates that exist on the planet at the moment is whether evolution is real. Evolution can be defined as the metamorphosis of a biological being over a time range. Evolution leads to diversity of beings. It is of course no surprise that there is debate over the reality of it. Whether it is fact or fiction. Whether humans were created by a supreme being or just evolved from a previous being that had existed before. A seeming battle of Elah between the camp of evolutionists and that of the creationists. The origin of man looks like one of those questions that won’t stop being brought into discourse. The design of the human body looks like a perfect work of art and there has always been a fascination as to where it came from. A fascination of the genesis of it all. Where it all began from. How we all got here (Intro taken from another article, feel free to argue with the author of it as some have done down below) As you probably know by now, there are main theories about how people came to exist. The two main theories (+ one branch) are called: -------------------------------------------------- [b]*Creationism[/b]- God created man in his own image to rule the creatures of this earth- a human's role is to overcome sins & satan before the end times to become more pure and have everlasting life in heaven. This is most popular in Christianity, many do believe and find faith in this as per say the 'historical evidence' & recent movies coming out: God is real, noah's ark, etc. Most people attempt to discredit this with science. [hider=Bible said] The Beginning 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. 6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. 14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. 24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” 29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. [/hider] --------------------- [b]*Evolution [/b]- A theory that man evolved over millions of years from tiny life cells to monkeys and finally to man as we are today. It is true that people a [i] long [/i] time ago begun describing their existence with faith but eventually people discovered science as humans became more intelligent, wanted what they believed was the truth, or searched for a way out of religions altogether. With science & fossils, people believe that natural selection has made us what we are today. People try to discredit this with 'Holes in science' or ask why monkeys still exist. I'd refer to [url=http://darwin-online.org.uk/] Charles dawrin's Theory of Evolution. [/url] ----------------------- FULL credit goes to Shy for bringing this to my attention, you guys can use this term, i hope this sets apart the somewhat heavy 'biblical' tone creationism may have had "[b] Intelligent Design [/b]" "Intelligent Design - the belief that evolution DOES exist (certainly on a micro scale though macro is under debate) but there are things such as "irreducibly complex cells" that could not have possibly developed by themselves. This theory does not imply a Christian God, simply a designer of some sort (some scientists have claimed aliens). This is based PURELY ON EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE, not any sort of religious text. While a smaller chunk of scientists than the Evolutionist belief, there is still a significant amount of scientists who have this belief." --------------------------------- Topic stressing you out? Take a break and Talk about evolutions and MMOs [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/23856/posts/ooc] Here [/url] Spotlight quote [quote=Dervish] Come on. Everyone knows Prometheus created us out of clay when he accidentally breathed life into us, gosh. [/quote] --------------------------------------------- [b]What do YOU believe and why? [/b]