Biblical Creationism vs. Macroevolution

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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” is the very beginning of the Bible and the world, written in Genesis 1:1. There has been, is currently, and always will be constant debate over where we came from: created by a higher power or slowly adapted over billions of years. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, evolution is defined as “a theory that the various types of animals and plants have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations.” In summary, this means that all things today came from something simpler and, due to natural selection, have become more complex over long periods of time. Macroevolution, which will be the focus of the following argument along with Biblical creationism, is the narrowed believe of evolution in the change at the species level while microevolution is change in order to adapt or mutate. Creationism, as defined by the same dictionary, as “the belief that God created all things out of nothing as described in the Bible and that therefore the theory of evolution is incorrect.” This most clearly means that God, as told in the Bible, created everything. Both theories seem miraculous and ridiculous at the same time. The debate is never ending because there never seems to be enough evidence to convince those on one side of the argument to agree with the other. However, if you look at the evidence objectively, there is an abundance of confirmation that points straight toward a God who created everything out of nothing but himself. Due to immense amount of evidence in support, creationism should be the foundation of the scientific community rather than evolution.
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