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Creationism/Evolution essay

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Creationism or Evolution? There are two main arguments for the birth of mankind and animal life, creationism and evolution. Creationism is the belief that god created the world in 7 days and evolution is the belief that we were born from single cells evolving (changing) over the millions of years; these two theories conflict and raise a lot of dispute. The idea of Evolution was presented by Charles Darwin in 1859. He thought that every organism began life as a single cell and evolved into what they are today. To explain his theory in more detail, he writes a book called 'The Origin of Species', detailing the idea of Evolution by natural selection. Darwin's work soon led to overwhelming acceptance of Evolution within the scientific community. In the 1930s, Darwinian natural selection was combined with Mendelian inheritance to form the modern Evolutionary amalgamation, in which the connection between the units of...

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