Argumentative Essay: Charles Darwin's Theory Of Evolution

For millennia, the age-old question of mankind’s origins as well as the origins of all life has been unequivocally answered by the dominant force that is religion. Throughout this time, stories like those of Genesis as stated in the Bible have maintained a monopoly on belief about life’s beginning and have enjoyed their unrivaled influence. In the last century and a half, however, a richer, stronger, and in my view, more compelling argument has come to fruition: Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Darwin’s seminal work, On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, has provided the sturdy foundations for the solidification of his theory that random variation plus natural selection links all living things to a common ancestor. Perhaps unsurprisingly,

Darwinian theory is a rigorously tested and empirically proven claim about the natural world. It must be taught in the biology classroom just as gravity is taught in the physics classroom or atomic theory is taught in the chemistry classroom. Creationism on the other hand, is a purely faith based perspective of the natural world and provides nothing but supernatural explanation. Evolution is an essential lesson to teach students and failure to do so will result in a lack of a scientifically literate next generation of adults. Creationism must be kept out of the classrooms of public schools, if at the very least only to honor the Constitutional provision of a separation of church and

It is a well established fact that higher levels of education are proportional to higher incomes. Although one can still be successful without pursuing college degrees, it is a popular consensus among all Americans that education is essential in today’s highly specialized, unforgiving job market. To not allow the teaching of evolution in schools is to severely handicap the futures of students interested in any area of life science. For CEO of the Planetary Society and overall science educator Bill Nye, teaching evolution to kids is necessary for the innovative progress of the United States. In a video posted on the website of Big Think©, the Science Guy reasons ”when you have a portion of the population that doesn’t believe in that [evolution], it holds everybody back, really.” Nye begins to beg further questions on how we educate our kids. Scientific discoveries are going to continue to occur, that’s just how science works. Many of these discoveries will most likely not mingle very well with certain fundamental religious beliefs. Are we expected to ban the teaching of new and exciting scientific breakthroughs simply because they might interfere with an aspect of traditional religious ideas about the world? This is the kind of dangerous territory we are heading towards if we continue down this