Evolution and Faith

Today during the biology class we had a special guest speaker. Dr. Brian Jones from the religion department talked about why he as Christian accepts Darwin´s theory of evolution, even some people may argue that there is a conflict between these two. He began his speech giving an explanation of what is the theory of evolution. He focused specially in the evidence that supports evolution, like the artificial breeding of dogs and the finding of vestigial organs in different species. Then, he started saying that one of the reasons of why he accepts this theory is because there are many scientific fields of study that support this, like paleontology, archaeology and off course biology and the he presented more argument to support his thesis.

Dr. Jones speech was interesting. However most of what he said was not something that I haven’t heard before.  For me it is clear that we cannot accept the literal meaning of the bible and that this book should be seen according to the epoch and context from it came. I believe that seeing what the bible says as an absolute truth is as “bad” as trying to explain all our existence based on the evolution theory. But as humans we have a tendency to “go to the poles” in a binominal way of think. This means that we tend to believe only reality is one element or the other failing in recognize how there may be an intermediate between both of them. It is always YES or NOT, BLACK or WHITE, GOD or SCIENCE. We cannot explain why we are here based only on one of these perceptions. I believe that as humans we have a lot of gifts that it is just impossible so many favorable coincidences, there is something else out there.  I also think that the scientists who argue against the existence of God are really wasting their time; there are mysteries that science cannot explain and probably is never going to explain. Is not about duality, is about making our own connections and creating our own perception.