Creation Vs Evolution/Big Bang.

One of the biggest debates that i hear surounding science is the debate on whether 'the big bang' actually happened or whether, as many see it - God created the world, and everything on it. There's no doubt you will have heard both of these theories before, but just to refresh your memories...

Creationism:
(As sourced from the linked BBC site)

The main points of creationism are these:

• All life was created by the actions of God
  • Some Creationists say God did this in a single creative event
  • Some Creationists don't limit creation to one event
• All the forms of life existing today were created by the actions of God
• The organisms created by God can't produce new forms of organism - only God can do this
• The most common theory follows the accounts in the Biblical Book of Genesis, but most religions have their own creation story
• Modern creationism uses scientific evidence to support scripture
• Most scientists say the creationism theory is false and unscientific.

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• the universe and everything in it could not have come into being without a supreme being causing it to happen

The Big Bang theory/Evolution:
The Big Bang theory describes how the Universe began in a rapid expansion about 13.7 billion years ago and has evolved since that time.
"According to the Big Bang model, the universe was originally in an extremely hot and dense state that expanded rapidly. This expansion caused the universe to cool and resulted in the present diluted state that continues to expand today."  - BBC Universe Website. (Take a look at this webiste.. really good with clips to explain too!)

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The biggest theory of evolution that everyone has heard of is Darwin's theory of evolution, which states that all life on earth is related and has evolved over thousands of years into the life that we see today. It's all very complex with there being different parts of the theory like Natural Selection. (click the website to find out more!) and whilst his theory is now being changed and challenged as we know more about the genes and thousands of complex structures that now 'make up' life on earth. I think it's a still a theory that's relevant and way ahead of it's time. A good grounding for expansion as they say..




We all know the diagrams with the monkey's to man..  Thought this was a funny way of looking at it.!
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I'd rather let you make up your own mind than tell you what I think is the 'correct theory' to believe.. but evolution for me, has the bggest basis, and as someone who's still not sure about the 'big man upstairs'  I think I'll go with the thought of only believing what I have proof for, however naive that may sound...

 I thought I'd go for another survey of 500people, just to see what the world thinks, below are the results on a map.. 
Orange spots are for evolution.
Blue spots are for Creation.
Green Spots are for 'a bit of both'
Red  spots are for Other thoughts.



EDIT: The results from this question are actually pretty close to what I expected to see from different countries throughout the world. With Europe, Australia and America mostly believing in Evolution or a bit of both.. and the more religious countries like the 'bible belt' of America and India and the countries on the continent of Africa chosing 'creationism.

Religion and Science - Do they 'go together' ??

I saw a comment on a tv show last night - granted it was only 'Waking the dead' - and it made me think about how people see science in relation to religion. One of the characters in the show was asked if his son was a religious person and his response was "He was a scientist..".

This is something I have heard quite alot, the idea that a person who is relgious cannot hold religious beliefs because the ideas clash somewhere in the middle.
I at the moment am not sure on the subject but in my years I dont think someone can believe in creationism and evolution but this shall be explained more in s in another post soon -
to be titled 'The age ol' debate - Evolution or Creationism'

So.. to answer my initial question - I went onto ask500people.com and set up a poll to see what people around the world thought - below are the results from people's responses! :)






EDIT: You can now see the results in the map above. These results are not what I expected, with 72% of the 76 votes cast in favour of being able to believe in God and also alot of scientific ideas.
I find it interesting however that the vast majority of 'yes' votes came from the United States 'bible belt' and south America and well as other stereotypical highly religious countries such as India and the East. I think this has proved that you can never predict what the outcome of a social experiment will be!