Evolution has played such a major role in shaping modern society that it is essential for every member of our culture to understand the theory, the evidence for it, and its implications. It is more difficult than one might first expect to discover exactly what the theory of evolution says. One reason is that it has changed drastically over the relatively brief period that it has been the ruling paradigm of Western thought. Changes are not usually broadcast to the general public. (See Arthur S. Lodge’s search for a definition.)
When the theory first became popular, following Charles Darwin’s proposal of natural selection as the means to drive the process, it was a simple and very appealing hypothesis. Life was rather simple in those days. Algae, amoebae and such humble creatures were blobs of protoplasm which Darwin postulated might have just happened in some warm little pond by the chance coming together of chemicals. It was rather easy to imagine that a few relatively simple changes in this protoplasm could lead to developmental change, and that natural selection would ensure that better adaptation would be preserved. Changes which led to worse adaptation would die out as poorly adapted creatures would perish in the struggle for existence and fail to leave offspring with their inferior design.
Chronological History of Evolution vs. Creation Science
The Piltdown Man Hoax: One of Many Scientific Frauds of Evolution
Charles Darwin Publishes ‘Origin of the Species’ Theorizing that Species Originated by Evolutionary Means
Hermann Helmholtz Presents the Original Formulation of the First Law of Thermodynamics: The Law of Conservation of Energy
French Physicist Sadi Carnot Publishes ‘Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire’ which were the Foundation for the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics – A Law that Refutes Evolution
William Paley Published ‘Natural Theology’: “the Kind of Carefully Designed Structures we See in the Living World Point Clearly to a Designer.”
