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Essay / The Evolution of Evolution - 1201
Society's views on the creation of humanity have changed rapidly since the discovery of evolution. However, there was a time before the world did not know the theory of evolution and the theories demonstrated by Sir Charles Darwin. Before evolution there were people who were subject to religious ideologies about how humanity was created, they believed that the upper class were known to be "divine creatures". However, the introduction of evolution leads the theory to become the basis of biology and changes the minds of people around the world. First, before the theory of evolution, there was the idea that humans were created by God. For example, in Greek mythology, it was believed that man was created by Prometheus (The Creation of Man by Prometheus, 2014). In Christianity, it was believed that God created humans, in the Bible it says: “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female. » (New International Version Genesis 1:27). Society would rely on religious views to know how the human race was created. Before the publication of the book "On the Origin of Species", society also relied on religion and not science to answer its questions, because there was little development in the scientific field. Questions such as why do we share so many genetic traits with apes or why bonobos are bipedal like us have all been questioned by society before evolution (Comparing Human and Chimpanzee Genomes Looking for Needles in a haystack Varki and Altheide, 2014). However, evolution has led us to understand how we have evolved from one species to another over time. We now understand how our genetic traits match those of other species and how other species walk upright like us...... middle of paper ...... towards each other. At first, society did not accept evolution, but that didn't stop Charles Darwin from stating that it was a fact. In conclusion, society's views have changed since the introduction of evolution because in the beginning, society relied on religion to answer its questions. but after the introduction of evolution, they now understand that religion cannot answer all questions. Past society believed that white Europeans were a divine creature, which turned out to be false since we all descended from one ancestor. There was a huge debate when Charles Darwin published the Origin of Species and society did not accept his ideologies at first. However, over time this has become more believable. Charles Darwin shows society that no matter what you do or say, people will always judge, so it's up to us to have a passion to continue doing what we do..