Kara's Science Extra Credit Paper

Kara was SO CLOSE to getting an A in Science for the semester, I offered for her to do an extra credit paper for me.  Enjoy!

Creationists and evolutionists have their own beliefs. According to the Creationists, there’s the one true God who created all, loves all, and cares for all. Evolutionists say that there was an infinitely small ball of molecules that exploded and became what we see today, and that living things evolved from single-celled organisms to the complex, advanced organisms we see today throughout millions of years. But, if someone was walking in a meadow and saw a watch, they would they assume that various metals came together and the watch just “happened”? 

Creationists rely solely on faith for their beliefs, but so do evolutionists. Nobody was there in the beginning, so nobody knew for sure how all was created. Creationists take Scripture and either take it literally or twist it to try to figure it out. Evolutionists, like Creationists, have many theories about how things came to be, especially with organisms.

Some believe the theory of natural selection, which is where the dominant organisms with favored traits are the ones that survived and mated, causing there to eventually be a generation that is purebred for these favored traits. This theory, however, doesn’t fully work; it does help the species have a slightly higher chance of survival, but it doesn’t keep going from there. The species don’t develop into more advanced species. Most Creationists believe that God created the organisms as they are today, and no evolution took place.

Some evolutionists believe that organisms evolved through mutations. However, even through millions of years, the right mutations in just the right order couldn’t have occurred properly. Not to mention most mutations are harmful or unnoticeable. Bats are good examples. Most evolutionists say that a small mammal, similar to a shrew, evolved into the bat you can find outside nowadays. For this to have happened, the bats would have to experience a series of mutations until an individual had become a bat. This series would have included thousands of mutations over many generations affecting the ears, eyes, vocal mechanisms, organs, limbs, balance, and other bats’ characteristics.

There’s also the theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Take giraffes, for example. Evolutionists say that, when giraffes couldn’t get to the lower branches of trees for food, they stretched their necks to reach up higher. The next generation of giraffes were then supposedly born with longer necks. However, this theory was disproven with a test with mouse tails. No matter how many generations of mice were used as test monkeys, the baby mice were still born with tails. It is possible for a giraffe to stretch its neck, but its offspring won’t be born with long muscles. It’s like how, if a man exercises often and builds up muscles, his son won’t be born with big, strong muscles.

Creationist views and evolutionist views are very different. They both rely solely on faith; nobody was there in the beginning, and the beginning affects the rest. Nobody can scientifically prove how things happened if they don’t know the beginning of it all. It’ll be interesting to know the answers evolutionists try to come up with in the future.