"Darwinian natural selection as opposed to the Christian theism of creationism has implications for western civilization like few subjects in the modern world ."
"Darwinian natural selection is n't opposed to Christianity . In fact , if you took the time to inform yourself you would find that Christian organizations like the ICR and AIG both clearly state that natural selection is a reality and consider it foolish to deny it . In fact , young earth creationists propose evolution by means of natural selection at rates that boggle the minds of evolutionary biologists . They reason that the millions of species of animals that we know of today evolved in very few years after the flood of Noah from the few thousand `` kinds `` that were aboard the ark . I think that you have confused one of Darwin 's theories with the modern biological theory of evolution . It seems that you are n't aware of the fact that Darwin was not the first scientist to state a theory of evolution . Darwin merely restated the simple idea that populations of animals are observed to change over time , an old idea that was accepted by many naturalists of the day . In fact , even Darwin 's grandfather wrote about evolution . By the time Darwin sailed on the Beagle , evolution was an old idea and by the time Darwin published On the Origin of Species the idea was 28 years older . Darwin proposed a mechanism of evolution , which is why his idea gained such wide acceptance almost immediately . What Darwin 's theory lacked was a mechanism of heredity by which novel characteristics were able to remain in a population and not be overwhelmed by majority of the population that lacked that characteristic . None of the theories of heredity of Darwin 's day could account for the origin and increase of new characteristics in a population . That was the greatest challenge to `` Darwinism `` until the early decades of the 20th century when Mendel 's work was rediscovered ."
"Darwinian natural selection as opposed to the Christian theism of creationism has implications for western civilization"
"Darwinian natural selection is n't opposed to Christianity ."