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