Is God Dead? Series: Infinite Monkeys

In 1859, Charles Darwin changed how people viewed themselves and their place in the universe by setting forth his theory of evolution in his famous work, On the Origin of Species. Darwin proposed that all living creatures, including man, are descendants of some ancient primordial form of life that developed and differentiated through a selection mechanism. Darwin theorized that mutations occur within any given species, creating slight changes over time. Most often, these mutations are not beneficial and are not passed on to the next generation, while other mutations are deemed detrimental and are therefore considered a hindrance. On rare occasions, however, these mutations do provide an advantage to the species, and it is the natural selection of these advantageous traits that Darwin termed natural selection. In his own words, he wrote, “I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.” According to Darwin, natural selection becomes the driving force behind simple primordial species becoming more and more advanced through successive generations, eventually evolving into completely different and new species altogether. This is how Darwin proposed man’s descent from a gooey blob in a warm little pond over thousands of generations. However, it is important to note that the key to Darwinian evolution is time; lots of it! Evolutionists argue that given enough time, almost anything is possible, including the evolution of human beings. The probabilities, it is argued, are endless—given enough time.