The Christian and scientific explanations for the origins Of the universe and the design of the natural world

        Newton believed that if you look at your thumb it has so many intricate lines and that each person’s thumbprint is different. Something detailed like that and so unique there has to be a designer, and that designer is God. Paley believed that the world was like a watch with so many intricate little parts, with so many parts if one of them was to break or fail the whole watch would stop working. Just like in an eco system, if one creature were to die out the whole eco system would suffer. Paley said that just like a watch the Earth has a designer, and Earth’s designer was God.

        Darwin says that the Biblical account of creation cannot be literally true because he believes that all living things have evolved from bacteria to what they are today. Evolution means when something adapts, over a long period of time, to it’s environment. In Darwin’s theory we have evolved from apes, which originally evolved from bacteria in the sea. Christians might argue that it was still God that first put those bacteria there and that he had planned that they would finally evolve into what everything is today.

        I do not agree with Paley’s theory because all creatures were not designed at the beginning, they have adapted and evolved to suit each other over time. I also do not agree with Newton’s theory about the thumb because I think that if there was a designer he or she would follow a set ‘design’ for making humans, therefore everybody would be the same and it’s the very fact that the everyone’s thumb is so different that makes me think that there is no designer. I agree with the big bang theory because there is a lot more evidence for it than there is for God. Also if everything has a first cause and that cause is supposedly God then what was the first cause for God?