Natural Selection vs. Divine Creation
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SummaryFrom the beginning of the ideas presented by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, and their gaining support from the scientific community, the theory of evolution was been met with opposition. A great deal of this opposition came from religious groups who believed in a creation from a divine being. Perhaps the strongest defense for the possibility of divine creation came from the ideas of William Paley’s Argument from Design. Darwin, who came after Paley, proposed that it was not any sort of Intelligent Design from a creator that led to people and other organisms having various functions, but natural selection. Darwin went on to specifically refute some of Paley’s examples, such as the vertebrate eye. When looking at Darwin’s theories and explanations, it is nearly impossible to believe that his work did not refute the work of Paley.
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