Is Evolution the "creation myth " for our current society?

Question

every historical society has had a way of explaining how things have come to be. I presume that they based it on there observations of what was happening around them.

we look back on what people believed 1000 years ago and think they were ignorant. will people who look back on us in the future think of us the same way

I'm sure that the people of the past would have srgued that the evidence that they had proved that there was a god.

I believe in Evolution.

I think that everything comes down to interpretation of evidence

Answer 1

All scientific theories evolve. Evolution is the best model that we have been able to create to date. In 1 or 10 or 100 or 1000 years that will be variations or even whole new ideas.

That's the beauty of science.

Answer 2

Evolution means to change over time. Evolutionary theory of the origins of species means that as similar creatures spread out over areas and became isolated from other similar creatures, they did two things: 1) changed over time and 2) developed enough genetic differentiation that they were no longer able to interbreed successfully, hence, creating a new species.

Abiogenesis would be the "creation myth" for our current society that you're looking for. Abiogenesis = spontaneous life from non-living matter.

Myth would be innaccurate though. If abiogenesis or evolutionary theory were, for some unimaginable reason, proven completely wrong, it would, instead be more like Galileo's pronouncement that the sun was the center of the universe and everything revolved around it. His observations were not wrong, they were just incomplete due to lack of both further scientific discoveries and technology.

Heliocentrism is not a "myth" but a theory that failed in the face of observable, recordable evidence that wasn't uncovered until years after Galileo's death. Creationism is a myth because it was never intended to be tested scientifically, but taken at face value as it's read. Vampires, a more modern myth, is the same way.

Answer 3

There are fundamental differences between science and myth, magic, religion, or faith as explanatory systems for understanding the natural world. There is more to science than just observation and then deducing something. It involves repeatable tests of ideas (ie hypotheses) that can be refuted; these are not components of the other explanatory systems like myth.
Evolution is a scientific theory, so I wouldn't call it a myth or compare it to any other "myth". ("Theory" in science is different than in common parlance; it is a stronger statement than "fact".)

If you are interested in the epistemological differences between myth and science, I suggest reading Francois Jacob's "Evolution and Tinkering," a brief essay published in Science in '77. It describes these differences well.

Answer 4

Just cause the scientist have finally figured out some of how God works this miracle called life doesn't mean they know why it happened. I pray that future generations will see how much love God has for us and be free to enjoy it.

Neither Creationism or evolution are myths, they are inextricably intertwined.

Answer 5

Evolution has been overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community for almost 150 years. I'd hardly call that a flash in the pan. One of the things that gets me about creationists, is that they basically treat a book written thousands of years ago as a scientific text. Does that make any sense?

Answer 6

. The introduction data as provided interior the Bible are the actual and splendid historic previous of the earth. The Norse, Greek, Roman, Aztec and the different introduction thoughts are purely the re-telling of God's actual introduction, because of the fact every physique on earth are descended from Noah's 3 sons and as a result had the oral traditions exceeded down. . . ...

Answer 7

Here's the deal. Civilization as you call it is still a baby. Been here for not even 10000 years. Science didn't fully take root until even a century ago.
We have evolved past the myth and have discovered the FACTS!

Answer 8

Yes.

And those observations were improved upon, and improved upon.

The theories that fall under "evolution" are also improving over time. It's the nature of science.


Religion on the other hand...

Answer 9

Creation myths were/are based on superstitious beliefs and guesswork.

Unless you're calling scientific research and findings superstitious beliefs then you're barking up the wrong tree.

Answer 10

In a way, yes, and in a way, no...

This will twitter up the Skeptic crew tho...any idea that what they believe is a "creation myth" will just get their shorts in a bunch.