This is my first post, so just to give a little background on myself, I am a freshman in College, touching basics, but interested in education, Geology, and Marine sciences. I have just completed a Physical Geology course.
I have long been steeped into the debate of Evolution vs. Creation. I live in an area of the country where it is not hard to have said debate. Needless to say, it has generally invaded my teenage years.
I have a naturalist for a grandmother, so my love for the biological and geological sciences drives everyday routine, where it be a neat bug on the window or a cool fossil I found in a parking lot.
I love science and consider myself a enthusiast at marine biology and oceanography (especially sharks), Geology and Entomology, with a basic grasp of most other sciences.
I am not perfect, and neither will my argument be, so please be intelligent with your post.
For eons this debate has turned into a circus of people shouting at people with no understanding. To a lot of people I have debated, it is just a game. However, I have pulled myself out of that style and have done my homework. Here I present my first argument for why there is evolution.
The answer to the above statement is simply because life needs it.
To elaborate, I must point out a phenomenon that our universe is irrefutably wrapped in, change. Right now, as I am typing this topic, my breathing is producing more CO2 in the room I am in. It mixes and interacts with other gases in the room (obviously in a minute way, unless something big is about to happen). As I press the keys on my keyboard, dead skin cells are falling off and minutely changing the weight of the key. The paint on said keyboard is slowly, microscopically wearing off.
We can go bigger. In my fish tank, the denizens of the tank are causing the tank to slowly become either more alkaline or acidic, making it necessary for me to change the water sometime this month. On the street outside, there is most likely a bug eating another bug, causing a change in both the victim and the victee's body as the victim appeases the victee's body metabolism; juices in the arthropod's stomach prepare to digest the hapless prey. Every day, the world is not the same as it was yesterday. Zillions of organisms are born, and zillions die. Continents slowly move around on the mantle, bumping and swaying, and maybe even causing an earthquake or two. As each day goes by, the sea is engorged by melting ice from glaciers and ice sheets, as well as depleted by the sun's rays. Out in space, stars and planets are constantly swirling in the cosmos, who knows when one might explode or collide.
The point? The universe has one constant factor that affects all things in it, and that is change. Delta. Triangle. And life is no different.
If we go by the Creation model, all life was just plopped down as it was with no mechanism to adhere to the change, no way to counteract its effects. Evolution provides this mechanism, provides the way to prosperity.
Life is always changing, minutely to the human eye, but just as if I decided to splurge on candy bars, I wouldn't be fat instantly (though I'd sure feel that way), but over time, if I were to lead the sedentary lifestyle of the common couch potato, in a few weeks I would cause the bathroom scale to cry. The same is true for life.
Edited by Admin, : Change title, was "A State of Change"
Edited by Invader Scooch, : More detail in my background.
Edited by Invader Scooch, : Tidying.
Edited by AdminPhat, : Title change per request
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