Science vs. Religion

For many years now we have been taught about science and how everything was created by a mixture of chemicals. At the same time, they have being telling us since we were little kids that God created the universe and everything that’s in it. What should we believe then? These kind of theories brings us to one big debate, which will probably never end: religion vs. science. It is up to us which side we want to take, but no one is ever going to prove us the right answer, since no one was able to live during that time period. One could talk for hours and hours about the right answer, but one will never agree on the same terms.

Richard Dawkins clearly supports the scientific theory in his book The Selfish Gene, since he believes that we were all created by accident. “But let copies be made form other copies, which in their turn were made form other copies, and errors can e described as improvements.” (Pg. 16) Whether he is right or not, it is a valid explanation which we shall all be bother to hear. It is hard to believe that we all came from the same molecule, and due to errors in the replication, we came to be what we are now a days as well as the creation of other hundreds of different replicas. Who would have believed that from one tiny molecule could come out all kind humans, animals, and plants? What I found also very interesting is how the survivals of these replicators came to be known as the survival machines. As errors continued to be made, more competition arose since each day there were more enemies with a larger protection coat. This also led to competition, where the different molecules were trying to increase their stability and decreasing the stability of the rival. As we know from now a days only the strongest are the ables to survive. This can lead to the theory of Darwin that only the fittest are the ones who should be able to survive. I ask myself, do we have enough evidence to confirm Dawkins theory? I don’t think so, it is just another way of seeing how everything came to be as it is.

I am finding really interesting this book because it’s a new point of view towards evolution that I haven’t been able to analyze so clearly.