2. WHAT IS
EVOLUTIONISM ?
•the notion that basic life forms
increase in complexity over time
due to environmental adaptation.
3. THEORY OF EVOLUTION IN MYTHOLOGY
EVOLUTION
Evolution holds that
life spontaneously
arose from nonliving
matter, and through
numerous small
changes over
geological ages, all
life forms arose from
that initial common
ancestor.
EVOLUTION
Evolution is also a
creation story it
explains how things
became. But not
the same as the
creation myth.
4. CREATION MYTHS - INVOLVE A
POWERFUL BEING OR A “GOD”
WHO CREATES LIFE FORMS.
5. But in the Theory of Evolution, no supernatural being
is involved.
Everything is based on random natural processes
called Natural Selection.
Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution.
Organisms that are more adapted to their environment
are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that
aided their success. This process causes species to
change and diverge over time.
6. Evolution explains the origins of a culture that either
rejects a supernatural God or believes God is uninvolved in
at least some aspects of creation.
Evolution serves the important sociological purpose of
validating the thinking and practices of a culture that puts
its faith in undirected natural processes.
The theory of evolution contains the characteristics of a
myth. But the question is whether evolution is more fact -
based like science, or faith-based like many religions.
