The Theory of Evolution Supports The Existence of a God

Before I begin I would just like to say one more thing, my side of the debate will have nothing to do with which god created life, only that evolution supports that it was 'A God'. Evolution Before I go on with my argument I would first like to briefly provide a summary of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Inside all our cells our DNA (deoxyribose nucleic acid)creates a code which tells our bodies which proteins or amino acids to produce in order to 'build' our bodies. However every member of a particular species is not identical, so neither is their DNA, this is known as Natural Variation. With in a species there may be more then one of the same gene, for example different people have a variation of the gene for eye colour, telling the body to make it either Blue, Brown, Green, etc.. These alternate forms of the same gene are called Alleles. Natural Selection is the process whereby an environment will 'select' the members of a species who's alleles make them more suited to the environment. The animals with favourable characteristics will be more likely to survive longer and therefore more of their genetic code, or DNA is passed on to the next generation. The First Life The first reason why evolution as a theory gives credence to the notion of a god that intelligently designed all life on earth, or merely shaped it's development, is that somewhere along the line, DNA had to come into existence. Most scientist now believe that it evolved from an earlier, similar structure called RNA (ribose nucleic acid).[1] The structures of both of these involve the joining together of four complex nitrogen bases (they differ in both DNA and RNA) with sugars. For life have been possible, all of these ingredients would have to randomly bond together in a coherent fashion to form a whole, then more and more must join before you can even begin to think about the complex organisms we know so well today. [2] Building a Tower Before you build a tower you must first lay the foundations. You need to have all the right materials and the right tools to put them together. The same can be said with life. While I believe the notion that a god created all creatures great and small and then just let them run around as they pleased is completely incorrect, the idea that god started to build life, rather like the construction of a tower. The first thing needed were the materials, RNA and later DNA, materials that were capable of building life and also altering it themselves through mutation, which I will cover in more detail later. Next, much like an architect designing a building, it was necessary to know what sort of life was desired and so testing begun. A god would have manipulated DNA in different ways to get new results, new species or creatures. Continuing to use the tower metaphor, models would have to made and structures tested to ensure they were sound, this is where natural selection comes into play. Variation in a species can be thought of the different, models, they would have been crafted, by evolutionary changes in their DNA building blocks, and then applied into a certain environment to determine what worked, and what didn't. Stepping Stones The original single celled organisms and bacteria didn't need to become for complex, they could have survived fine the way they were. But they did change, and that suggests that evolution is not all natural, that there is a force behind it, driving it to become bigger and better than a simple bacteria, bacteria does not yearn for greatness, intelligence does. [1] http://www.actionbioscience.org... [2]http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu...