Evolution: Misunderstood Scientific Theories

Evolution Science has many subjects that have a lot of misconceptions and are very controversial. Evolution is one of the most misunderstood scientific theories by the average person. As a result, this topic is very controversial and has thousands of misconceptions, such as, that the theory of evolution is not compatible with religion and that evolution is just a theory. First, one must know the difference between a scientific theory and a scientific law. A theory outside of science is usually defined as a hunch or a guess. However, a scientific theory is a well-tested explanation that joins many hypotheses and observations together. This makes it possible for scientists to form precise conjectures about new situations. A scientific theory
The French naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck formed two hypotheses. He proposed that organisms have the ability to change during their lifetimes by carefully choosing certain parts of their bodies to use and ignoring other parts. His other suggestion was that the organisms have the ability to pass on the characteristics that they obtained to their offsprings which caused the species to change over time. Lamarck suggested that organisms change and obtain features that improve their fitness - in science fitness is how well an organism is adapted to its environment - because they are born seeking to become more complex and perfect. He believed that an organism can alter the size and shape of their organs by simply using its body differently. He also believed that the traits acquired by the organisms wanting to become more perfect can be passed on to the organism’s offspring which, over time, change the species. Although Lamarck’s hypotheses had many mistakes such as organisms having an inborn drive to become better and that traits gained by organisms in their lifetimes can not be passed on to the offspring, he was one of the first naturalists to propose that species change and are not fixed. He gave Darwin and many other scientists a push to research evolutionary
They believe that evolution and religion are not compatible. Since all the abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) believe in a creator that created and placed organisms on the earth, while the theory of evolution states that all organisms have a common ancestor that changed over time to form all known organisms, people think that the two can never go together. However, many important religious figures state that they can actually coexist. For example, Pope Francis - the head of the Romanian Catholic Church - said that evolution does not disturb the fact that there is a creator. He also stated that believers ought not to believe that God is “a magician, with a magic wand.” The Romanian Catholic Church believes that God created organisms and the universe supernaturally, but then enabled natural processes to operate over many years. Muslims have had mixed feelings about the theory of evolution. In 1881, Jamal al-Din Afghani was the first muslim to critique evolution. He was against it. He wrote, “Is this wretch deaf to the fact that the Arabs and Jews for several thousand years have practised circumcision, and despite this until now not a single one of them has been born circumcised?” However, circumcision is a mutation that happens in the life of an organism and so it cannot be passed on to the offspring as Lamarck previously thought. Another muslim from Lebanon called Huissein al-Jisr wrote,