While I went to a religious school, the only class I remember directly discussing evolution in was an elective class I took in 7^th grade called Civilizations. In part of the class, we read Inherit the Wind, Lawrence and Lee’s play about the Scopes Monkey Trial. Because the creationists were made out to look uneducated and the scientists were portrayed as far superior, as a 13 year old, my reaction to the whole thing was at first confusion, then skepticism about the entire subject. As Alex noted, every article we read had some kind of bias. It’s nearly impossible to find a source concerning evolution that is 100% truthful or 100% trustworthy. I don’t believe this is because the issue is a moral one. It is because this issue boils down to a debate over belief.

Alex notes everything we have come across is and will probably remain just a theory. Tennyson even says “Behold, we know not anything” (251). All we can do as humans is speculate. Currently, the debate falls between two extremes: creationists and evolutionists. The article we read by Studebaker tried to reason that creationism makes sense by simply observing the fact that the earth can support life; Studebaker says. “What are the chances of one planet having all the parameters necessary for life-support?” (262)

I agree with Megan S. in that this is too much of a generalization. More factors have to be considered before we can consider such a theory an absolute “truth.”

At the same time, we as humans want to be more important than a domino effect or a series of events leading to our existence. We can reason, we can think, and that seems important in setting us apart from the rest of the natural world. While it is difficult, maybe impossible to find the real answers or truths, creationism and evolution give us something to believe.

Because “nothing lasts forever” (256) we may never know why or how we are here. Can we solve the mystery of life? Probably not. Yet we keep on probing.

Somehow, everything is interconnected