The Origin of Species
Rodrigo Borges February 9 2009 04:48:14 PM
This week the world is celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, the man who changed how our children learn about the creation of the world as well as the evolution of the species. Before Darwin, all we knew was that the world began with Adam and Eve, their sons, sons' son until nowadays. On 1959, he published "On the Origin of Species", a revolutionary study about the species, where we come from and to where we will go.Since then the world is split on two:
- Darwinism: those who believe that we came from a long process of evolution, not from Adam and Eve. Most of the people who follow this idea is scientist and biologist.
- Creationism: those who still believe that God created the world, mad Adam and Eve and that we are sons of them.
Today I was reading a magazine here in Brazil about Charles Darwin and one thing that came up to my attention was how the schools around the world handle this topic to the students. All science books have changed to teach the students the Darwin's theory. But lots of schools are insisting on on keep the creationism on their program. Most of these schools are connected to religions and they simply don't accept the Darwinism.
I would like to hear from you your thoughts about this subject. Do you agree that the schools have to keep teaching science based on creationism instead of Darwinism? Maybe a mix between both?
