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Essay / Understanding the Origins of Life Debate
When discussing the origins of life, an unwavering dedication to the theories behind creationism and the theories of evolution and abiogenesis is felt. It is in this area of debate that Darwin challenges the dogmatic approach to religious doctrine's understanding of science and evolutionary precedent. The ongoing debate between evolutionary and abiogenesis biologists and religious leaders is the ultimate battle between science and pseudoscience. Evolutionary biology bases its claims on the idea that a gene is a hereditary unit that can be passed down from generation to generation. Through this change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations, natural selection acts on the genetic variation of individual organisms and results in the development of new species. This progressive development of genetic makeup can be and has been observed in all known living species on Earth and in many of them that have become extinct. The antithetical understanding of the origin of life debate has its roots in the scriptures of ancient religious texts. Although the claims vary among the various religions that strongly support this belief, the core of the argument rests on the idea that an all-powerful being created the universe and all life in it. Intelligent design rejects the claim that life arose through an undirected process such as natural selection and believes that life was created with intention and according to a plan determined by an all-powerful deity. The arguments in the two cases differ in almost every respect; science and religion constantly fail to reconcile. Creationists find comfort in the idea of a God who designed life in a specific way, while evolutionists believe in the astonishing beauty of evolutionary progress. ...... the middle of the article ...... is much more compelling because, in context, all of the surrounding evidence that offers answers to evolutionary biology and cosmological origins has scientific and logical answers. If, through the experimental processes of science, we have been able to diagnose the causes of so many of the origins of the universe and their subsequent products, why would it be unreasonable to conclude that we cannot find a solution scientist at the origin of life? Science seeks to answer questions about the universe, while creationism and religion pose problems and fill in the gaps of uncertainty through divine intervention. Science has disproved the vast majority of religious claims, so assuming it couldn't do the same for the origin of life would be stupid. Science consistently defeats pseudoscience through the use of logic and evidence and its determination to find substantial truth..