Blog 2: the allegory of the cave

There are many beliefs in terms of evolution or whether the earth and living things is a work of a creator or not. There are scientists who state that the universe was created randomly, the reality is that evolution has been a controversial issue between scientists and religions. Referring to the philosophy and science fiction book on page 24 Excerpt from the republic “the allegory of the cave”. Plato emphasized how humans live in ignorance and some people prefer to live in their illusions [without knowing the truth] even if they know they might be wrong.

Is truly scientific teaching of evolution? Robert Jastrow the astronomer says, "for his uneasiness, [scientists] have no clear answer, because chemists have never succeeded in reproducing nature's experiments on the creation of life from inanimate matter. the scientists do not know how that happened" [the enchanted loom: mind in the universe]. The physicist H.S Lipson said: "the only acceptable explanation is creation. is that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is for me, but we should not reject a theory if we do not like it, experimental evidence supports it" [physics bulletin].

On the other hand, allows the bible to accept that God used evolution to produced the various types of organisms? Well, if we go and read the scriptures says in Genesis 1:11 " and God went on to say 'let the earth cause grass to shoot forth, vegetation bearing seeds, fruit trees yielding fruit according to their kinds, the seed of which is in it. Upon the earth'. and it came to be so". Here the scriptures explain how the plants were created. How was men created? The bible give us the answer to that question, "and God went on to say: 'let us make man in our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth'". [Genesis 1:26]. The universe also was work of a creator. In Genesis we found "and God proceeded to make the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for dominating the day and the lesser luminary for dominating the night, and also the stars" [Genesis 1:16]. It is clear how the earth, living things and the entire universe was created.

Nowadays still there are scientist that believe in evolution we can find the topic "evolution" in science textbooks. the point is that scientists have their illusions even though the scriptures explain the the universe was work of a creator.