Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others. All species of organisms arise and design through the natural selection of minor inherited variations that increase the individual’s ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Feminists have been suspicious of the concepts of nature and biology central to Darwin’s work.
The evolutionary process that Charles Darwin discovered almost 150 years ago is responsible for transforming dinosaurs into birds and allowing the walking ancestors of whales to take to the seas, which is still quietly at work in humans today. Human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. Viewed zoologically, we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture-bearing upright-walking species that lives on the ground and very likely first evolved in Africa about 315,000 years ago.
Darwin, by comparison, accepted the universality of randomness and chance throughout the process of natural selection. Darwin’s work is a form of genetic determinism. Biological determinism, also known as genetic determinism, is the belief that human behavior is directly controlled by an individual’s genes or some component of their physiology, generally at the expense of the role of the environment, whether in embryonic development or learning.
For the last 10,000 years, we have been evolving in response to the kinds of diseases we are exposed to. Resistance to pathogens is mainly genetic, so that means that natural selection does occur. It’s one of the major types of ongoing natural selections that select you out.
Evolution is an ongoing process, although many don’t realize people are still evolving. Homo sapiens look very different from Australopithecus afarensis, an early hominin that lived around 2.9 million years ago. But it is also true that we are very different compared to members of our same species, Homo sapiens, who lived 10,000 years ago, and we will very likely be further from the humans of the future.
Homo sapiens have only been around for about 200,000 years, while the earth is nearly 4.5 billion years old.
Darwinism has many explanations for the origin of life. A current theory for explaining the origin of life is that it came from an ocean vent.
An alkaline vent, one in the parallel process of hundreds of thousands or millions of ducts in which the RNA World began independently in various localities. Then one benefited from the horizontal transfer by reverting to a single chimney that spewed out the genetic code.
Scientific Problems with Biological and Chemical Evolution are many.
Materialistic theories have proven universally inadequate for explaining the origin of functional, let alone complex information. An Event Originator, not randomness, is the causal power that can produce the information systems that can create life.
The origin of life requires a massive infusion of information. Randomness doesn’t do a report. Organisms come from organisms because organisms possess information-rich macromolecules and a complex information-rich system for processing and replicating the data stored in those molecules. Randomness didn’t do that.
The origin of information-rich systems either arises from preexisting information systems via a mechanism of replication or information-rich systems are put in place by an Event Originator. Both systems arise from an Intelligent Designer. DNA and proteins comprise two features: complexity and functional specificity. Randomness can’t do either one in a trillion years.
Materialistic theories have proven universally inadequate for explaining the origin of functional, let alone complex information. An Event Originator, not randomness, is the causal power that can produce the information systems that can create life.