For decades, scientists have conducted research on all living things; to help us determine what life is, what life does, and why things live. During life, several miraculous things take place, and among those things is change. Change that can start a chain reaction over decades, centuries, even millenia. We call these changes evolution. There are, however, several doubts in the minds of people; most commonly, those people who believe in the words of the Bible. If evolution is a real thing, then how could those changes happen in the short time the Bible claims the Earth has been created for? Hasn’t God already made everything he wants in the world the way he wants it? Some critics even question how we could evolve from non-living things. How is that possible? Despite all of their arguments, I maintain that evolution truly exists. Now, as I stated above, a primary argument against evolution is the idea that God created the Earth 6,000 years ago; this is stated in the Bible, and it’s a turn-to in arguments around evolution.
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To this, I invoke the ideas of carbon dating. Essentially, carbon dating is determining the age of something through the proportions of Carbon-12 and Carbon-14 it has. Some may argue that carbon dating isn’t always accurate, and this is true. Sometimes, carbon dating doesn’t give experimenters exact dates; in fact, scientists have to assume a lot about the date. However, I still maintain the fact that carbon dating is a highly practiced and constantly evolving science, and it still provides us with sometimes unspecific but constantly accurate results. In addition to carbon dating, scientists have been able to use ribosomes and RNA to narrow down the search of what the first living thing was; this helps us to solve a question of variety. How could so many different living things evolve from just one lifeform? It seems impossible; luckily, there’s an answer to this. Bob Holmes explains in his article, Before the Beginning, how, “It (proto-ribosome) lacked the regions that read the genetic code, so it couldn't have produced specific proteins.” (Holmes) He continues on to explain that, due to the inevitability of misreading the genetic code, these ribosomes replicated random and altering genetic sequences that was the start of what we call Evolution. Not only do carbon dating and proto-ribosomes help to prove our world is far more than 6,000 years old; they give us an idea of how our world grew from a desolate sphere of rock into the bustling host we know it as today. One last piece of evidence to bring up here is how the universe is expanding. Granted, this is a piece of evidence that doesn’t entirely revolve around the Earth, but it still gives us concrete evidence that the Earth is older than several people think. Essentially, our universe is slowly drifting apart; galaxies and stars are getting further away from one another and planets will forever remain unexplored. Scientists can track this movement using satellites and powerful cameras; this show us how quickly and how much the rest of the universe is drifting away from the Milky Way - or how quickly the Milky Way is drifting away from it. Since there’s a steadily increasing rate of expansion in our universe, we can determine the rate at which it used to expand, and back even to the point where it was first expanding. This is pertinent because scientists also know from these observations the time it took to expand; it is far more than 6,000 years. One objection commonplace against …show more content…
While I agree that this seems impossible, I still maintain that evolution truly existed. Luckily, an article covers this argument quite well by providing evidence of a complex amino acid known as arginine, a crucial building block of life, could have existed. “What the researchers found was that arginine was a player in many of the chemical interactions between proteins and aptamers.” (U of C) Essentially, their experiments showed these scientists how these amino acids could have existed during prehistoric times, albeit most likely a primal or proto-version of its current form. This could have been one of the first building blocks of life that proves how evolution truly
To this, I invoke the ideas of carbon dating. Essentially, carbon dating is determining the age of something through the proportions of Carbon-12 and Carbon-14 it has. Some may argue that carbon dating isn’t always accurate, and this is true. Sometimes, carbon dating doesn’t give experimenters exact dates; in fact, scientists have to assume a lot about the date. However, I still maintain the fact that carbon dating is a highly practiced and constantly evolving science, and it still provides us with sometimes unspecific but constantly accurate results. In addition to carbon dating, scientists have been able to use ribosomes and RNA to narrow down the search of what the first living thing was; this helps us to solve a question of variety. How could so many different living things evolve from just one lifeform? It seems impossible; luckily, there’s an answer to this. Bob Holmes explains in his article, Before the Beginning, how, “It (proto-ribosome) lacked the regions that read the genetic code, so it couldn't have produced specific proteins.” (Holmes) He continues on to explain that, due to the inevitability of misreading the genetic code, these ribosomes replicated random and altering genetic sequences that was the start of what we call Evolution. Not only do carbon dating and proto-ribosomes help to prove our world is far more than 6,000 years old; they give us an idea of how our world grew from a desolate sphere of rock into the bustling host we know it as today. One last piece of evidence to bring up here is how the universe is expanding. Granted, this is a piece of evidence that doesn’t entirely revolve around the Earth, but it still gives us concrete evidence that the Earth is older than several people think. Essentially, our universe is slowly drifting apart; galaxies and stars are getting further away from one another and planets will forever remain unexplored. Scientists can track this movement using satellites and powerful cameras; this show us how quickly and how much the rest of the universe is drifting away from the Milky Way - or how quickly the Milky Way is drifting away from it. Since there’s a steadily increasing rate of expansion in our universe, we can determine the rate at which it used to expand, and back even to the point where it was first expanding. This is pertinent because scientists also know from these observations the time it took to expand; it is far more than 6,000 years. One objection commonplace against …show more content…
While I agree that this seems impossible, I still maintain that evolution truly existed. Luckily, an article covers this argument quite well by providing evidence of a complex amino acid known as arginine, a crucial building block of life, could have existed. “What the researchers found was that arginine was a player in many of the chemical interactions between proteins and aptamers.” (U of C) Essentially, their experiments showed these scientists how these amino acids could have existed during prehistoric times, albeit most likely a primal or proto-version of its current form. This could have been one of the first building blocks of life that proves how evolution truly