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This argument has been overly exposed and debated for the last century and a half with never clear perceptive between the two oppositions. Creationism, the idea that God created all the species as they appear today, versus Evolutionism, the idea that all life evolved from simple bacteria to all the species that appear today, is a familiar controversy. Ever since Darwin first published the Theory of Evolution in his controversial 1859 book The Origin of Species, the debate has raged between religion and science.
But this debate is something that has always puzzled me. From the time I first understood what the Theory of Evolution was really saying, I found it difficult to reject. Scientifically, every shred of evidence in biology and genetics I have ever seen points to it, directly or indirectly. And religiously Evolutionism does not contradict Creationism.
Evolution is based on two underlying principles that themselves are not at all controversial: heredity and natural......

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