Christianity Vs Evolution Report

Christianity VS Evolution
The History of Christian’s Responses to Evolution before the 21th Century Synopsis This report is divided into 3 parts, the Pre-Darwinism, early responses to Darwinism and the mid 1950s responses toward Darwinism. The focus of this report is how Christian responds to Evolution that is explained in three ways, rejection of evolution, reconciliation of evolution and Christianity, and integration. 1 INTRODUCTION
Christianity and science used to be united. They shared the same perspective but shortly before the Renaissance era, Christianity and science had slowly parted to its own way (Moses). The gap grew even wider after the 18th century when Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution. Since then,
He was the first to propose the idea that the age of the earth was only 6000 years old. Since then, during his lifetime, he had numerous debates that focused only on whether or not his addition was correct or that he did not miss any descendent mentioned in the bible rather than whether his method is reliable or not (Dennis O 'Neil). These suggest that at that time, people believed strongly in Christianity and had little objection or not at all to scientific assertion that was derived from the bible. Ever since James Ussher proposed the idea, 17th and 18th century European biologist had not developed any further than the description of plants and animal. Later, one scientist named Carolus Linnaeus created a system to structurally classify all living organism and issued it in 1735 to science community in a book called Systema Naturae (Dennis O 'Neil). It discussed about how to name an organism using binomial system. He used that technique to name human as “Homo Sapiens”. “The concept of genus and species was actually developed in the late 1600 's by John Ray, an English naturalist and ordained minister” (Dennis O 'Neil). The discovery could be said to have led to the early basic framework for evolution, which suggests that living organism may share similar attributes if they are categorized in the same
Most of the vocal Christian’s group rejected the effort because they thought it was an attempt of evolution propaganda to children. Most of those Christians at that time were still in support of the “young earth” theory as the basis of their rejection to evolution. Some other Christian like John Whitcomb and Henry Morris, however, clarified the problem by using one of the stories that is written in Genesis, about Noah’s arc and flood to prove that the earth is old. Even so, the “young earth” movement continued to expand until the term “Creationist” became popular to explain Christian’s who support “young earth” theory (“How have Christians responded to Darwin’s ’Origin of