Dziękuję bardzo za sprawdzenie. Widzę, że zrobiłam banalne błędy, także "same beginning", które ubzdurało mi się już dość dawno. Jakby ktoś jeszcze chciał na to zerknąć, to wklejam poprawioną wersję.
For the last few days I have been thinking about reconciling science and religion. Scientists believe in what can be proved, religious people do not need proof to have faith. But what if some people can prove some theories but Catholics reject it? For example, try to imagine the world hundreds of years ago, when our life began. Were Adam and Eve our parents or was it started from apes?
The theory of evolution says that modern organisms have evolved from older ones and that this development is constant. This theory was at first suggested mainly by Charles Robert Darwin who set it forth in his book called “The Origin of Species”. According to Darwin both people and apes have the same ancestor and I share his opinion. I do not believe that fish can evolve into reptiles or something like that but this theory assumes evolution between the same types of animals, namely mammals: apes into human beings.
The idea of evolution has always been questioned by religion. Some people believe that it conflicts with their religious convictions. Most of my religious friends I sometimes talk to about it, cannot answer my questions so in some parts I can only suspect what they think of it. In my opinion one of the reasons why the theory of evolution is turned down is that people have souls but animals do not, so we could not have evolved from them. However, if we ignore this argument, can we still reject evidence? Is it written in the Bible what exactly the first people looked like? If not, we can only assume that our appearance and physique is different than it was then.
I truly believe in biological evolution. For one thing, I just feel that it is true. For another, I see how fast our appearance can change even in one generation. Even from a history book we can learn that at the very beginning we were more bent down than now, we used more primitive tools and some of our parts of body looked a bit different. I saw pictures of transitional life forms and I consider evolution a fact. I only regret I do not know biology well enough to talk about it in a more scientific way. I would know more details about it then. However, what interests me the most is not evolution from apes into humans, but the evolution of some beings into apes. I would like to know and see all the periods of developing life from the very beginning, from the birth of our planet.