are taking control of the Earth and all its biota, many question will evolution be less likely to occur in the future. Although it may hamper the natural part of evolution of surviving and passing genes to future generations, humans are intellectually and technologically advanced to take evolution into their own hands and decide how our and other species will evolve. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago and the earliest clear evidence of life on Earth dates back 3.5 billion years ago, during the Eoarchean (earliest time following the solidification of Earth’s crust) Era, after a geological crust started to solidify following the earlier molten Hadean (first geologic eon on Earth and lies before the Archean) Eon. Earliest possible physical evidence for life on Earth comes from fossilized mats of cyanobacteria called stromatolites (layered bio-chemical accumulated and formed in shallow water by trapping, binding, cementing sedimentary grains), that consisted of cell walls protecting their protein-producing DNA, in Australia that are about 3.4 billion years old. Today, there are several competing theories for how life arose on Earth. Some question whether life began on Earth at all, asserting instead that it came from a distant world or the heart of a fallen comet or asteroid. Some even say life might have arisen here more than once. Most scientists agree that life went through a period when RNA was the essential molecule, guiding life through its growing stages. This finding gave rise to the RNA world hypothesis, which is the idea that amino acids first formed into the proteins that make up ribonucleic acid (RNA), which took over and began self-replicating and generating new combinations of proteins creating new pre-cellular, and eventually, cellular life.
The evolution- creationism debate began in Europe and North America in the late 18th century, when new explanation of geology led to various theories of ancient earth, and extinctions demonstrated in the fossil geological sequence prompted early ideas of evolution.
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection, stated that different species originated from shared ancestors, with the differences in the organisms being caused by adaptations to different environments. The environment determines which species are best fit to survive, and the traits of the organisms are passed down to new generations. With enough time, such passages of traits could lead to whole new species. This theory was developed after decades of observations, studying thousands of animal and plant samples, all with extraordinary inferences drawn from observed similarities and differences. On the contrary, Intelligent Design is the belief that some features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent or supernatural cause. But, the appearances of organisms would have nothing to do with the survival success of their ancestors, like in natural selection. The divine being would have brought life about quickly in all the various forms we observe today, as opposed to the slow process theorized in natural selection. Although both ideas incorporate the existence of various life-forms, Intelligent Design must also include the existence of the designer, as well as the tools …show more content…
used in the design. Natural selection would imply the existence of biological processes which explains the similarities between offspring and parent organisms; such a thing isn’t too hard to believe because we can observe reproduction in organisms, meaning that something must be functioning within them which allows for reproducing more organisms. But Intelligent Design hypothesize the existence of design processes outside of what goes on in reproduction, which have to be more complex because such designing gives rise to not just one type of organism, like a calf, but a multitude of organisms. Through the fossil records, the gaps between species are bridged, fossils indicate a transitional stage from one type of organism to another, just as Darwin believed it would be the case. Intelligent Design cannot account for such transitional fossils, and every fossil found sheds greater light on the bridges between species and the weakness of Intelligent Design’s hypothesis.
As humans become more evolved and more intellectually advanced, we have kept developing new inventions and technology thus becoming more technologically advanced than previous generations and survive longer.
As of today, we can engineer cells, tissues, and robots that help sustained humans and also those that are physically and mentally delayed or underdeveloped. With new medical and technological advances, we are making life possible for people who wouldn’t naturally survive, like in the past, it was difficult for people who were physically and mentally underdeveloped because the science and technology weren’t as advanced as it is now. But as humans and technology become more and more advanced, we are constantly improving the lives of mankind and those less fortunate. And as humans continue on this advancement, in the future, they may cure some of humans’ affliction or illness like blindness or deaf. Although this process may hamper the natural part of evolution, humans are able to take evolution into their own hands and decide how our and other species will
evolve.