Intelligent Design vs. Evolution
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In this nation, there is a school on trial for trying to present two opinions to the pupils in its classroom. Why should any school go on trial for giving the children a choice of what to believe? The battle is over intelligent design and evolution.
In 1859 Charles Darwin released The Origin of Species, a book that tried to explain away the need of a creator for the complexities of the life around us. Since then, the public schools in America have shifted away from the teaching of God as the Creator of the universe, to teaching the theory of evolution as a fact!
Evolution teaches that everything slowly evolved over billions of years, eventually resulting with all we see today. Instead of saying that God created man in His own image, evolution says that man slowly evolved from monkeys, making it seem that humans are really little more than advanced animals. Instead of following the Biblical account of the 7 days of creation presented in Genesis, Darwin thought up the idea that cells gradually multiplied themselves, eventually producing the world and the complexities around us.
While evolution may seem to be logical, the theory breaks down at many points. For example, there is a symbiotic relationship that exists between two fish, the Oriental sweetlips, and the blue-streak wrasse. The Oriental sweetlips is a rather big fish, with a mouth full of teeth. While these teeth are very useful, the Oriental sweetlips needs a means of cleaning its teeth, so that they do not rot and become useless. This is where the blue-streaked wrasse comes in. The blue-streaked wrasse is a very small fish, that spends its day in a particular color of coral, waiting for the Oriental sweetlips to swim up and open its mouth right next to its home. When this happens, the little fish darts into the big fishes mouth, cleans its teeth and at the same time receives a meal. When the blue-streaked wrasse is done, it simply swims out and back into its coral, to await the arrival of the Oriental sweetlips the next day.
For evolution to explain this phenomenon would be quite preposterous! Evolutionists would have to argue that at the very same time the Oriental sweetlips developed the teeth and instinct to look for a certain color of coral and allow the little fish to clean its teeth without eating it, the blue-streaked wrasse would have had to develop the instinct to swim into the big fish's mouth without fear. If this did not evolve at the same time, the Oriental sweetlips would lose its teeth and the blue-streaked wrasse would starve! Obviously it would be very rare for this to happen, but there are many instances just like these that evolutionists have to believe in in order to explain the complexities of creation. On the other hand, to believe that God intelligently designed all of the interesting diversities of life is a much better choice for me.
Even in light of all the follies of evolution, many want to not even give students a choice, but to present the theory of evolution as scientific law! However, I am convinced that schools should be allowed to teach intelligent design along with evolution, in order to give students the right to choose for themselves what to believe.