Darwinian Theory Of Christianity Analysis

Christianity, like many religious traditions, was formed with a concept of a vertical hierarchy of being. Darwinian evolution, however, has collapsed this vertical hierarchy into a horizontal chain linked only through time. These differences have created conflict between the Darwinist and Christian views of the origins of humans and animals. Wolfgang Smith describes three major levels of reality: the corporal, the physical, and the celestial (Smith 83). These levels of being have traditionally been held to be spatially related to each other, the physical being under the corporal which is in turn under the celestial level of being. However, in a Darwinian world view, the only major separation between a human and a fungus is the time during

If evolution is paired with the cosmology of the Big Bang Theory, that time span expands to many billions of years. Traditionally, Christianity has held that the universe has only existed for several thousand years. While some theologians have argued that the seven days described in Genesis were actually seven long ages as we understand them, Smith argues that this is not the case. He states, “Physical time—the physical domain itself—comes into being at the moment when the spherical event horizon drops below the surface of the earth, a moment that coincides with the birth of the new event horizon itself. The resultant image of Earth “bursting through” that surface may indeed be seen as an icon of the Expulsion. Meanwhile, time in the firmament is racing at incredible speeds relative to the newly inaugurated earth-time, and the cosmos itself, centered upon earth, is expanding at a fantastic rate (Smith 124).” This relativistic slowing of time can explain why we can see light from stars millions and billions of light years

This concept was expanded by mathematician William Dembski, who showed that it is impossible to get more information out of a system than is put into the system by some outside force. These two ideas—irreducible complexity and the need for a creator to input information into the universe—are often illustrated using the example of a watch. If a person were to find a watch lying round, few would assume that it had been assembled by blind chance—instead an intelligent design would be assumed (Smith 186). However, the universe and the life in it is sizably more complex than a watch, and Darwinian evolution assumes it came about by blind