Monday, February 9, 2009

Respond to the following prompt: This is always a tricky discussion, but Jacoby presents some sharp arguments about the debate between evolution and creationism. For this blog, create your own discussion about this debate. Where do you stand and why? What critical criteria have you used to consider this issue (if at all -- maybe it's the first time you've thought about it)? Where does this issue stand among the issues of the day?

Here we go with creationism and evolution. Although Jacoby does argue her point very well, I am still unsure about how I feel about the situation. All in all, I am confused! Evolution seems to be the most logical explanation and arguments for evolution always seem to catch my attention. Evolution, in a Biology perspective, has to do with a change in inherited traits, or genes. This explanation is the reason for all of the life we have surrounding us from people to animals, etc... Creationism is more religious and has to deal with how things were created by a “god”. Even though evolution did seem persuasive with passing along information or genetics from person to person and so on, Creationism also has a strong argument in my eyes. Like I previously stated in my last blog, I am not too religious but some of my family members are. When I was younger I went to church and this explanation also seems logical to me. The main question that I have for both theories is this “If we are created from another being, whether it is a god like individual or from a biological perspective, who or what initially created that being?” It seems to be a constant confusing situation that I cannot seem to take a stand on yet.

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