Wednesday, January 23, 2008

God or Gorilla

By reading God or Gorilla I was able to further investigate my thoughts to look at a broader aspect of evolution and religion. As I have noticed, Reverend Groves tries to maintain the audience in undertstanding and thinking that evolution is false and ridiculous. It became very clear that in our world today we continuously have debates and concerns with regards to evolution (science) and religion. As I have understood, Reverand Groves was predominantly raised by the church, yet he as well learned the study of science. This captures my thought of thinking that Reverent Groves is entirely against evolution and yet he still had the oppurtunity to really fight against the study of science.

Having this read, I can understand Jooliyah's explanation of what seemed to be interesting in its way. As she discussed about the blood filled dolls, the book entirely did a very detailed graphical picture that allows the readers to have a good vision of the context being explained. However, the aspect of using dead babies to conclude his understanding of evolution is rather astonishing and schocking.

From what I am grasping from this reading, Groves makes clearly makes his point about darwin and from that we have elevated to deeper and broader studies of science. It is evident the scientific breakthroughs have brought great findings, but if I look at my friends for example, many of them are not really religious and for that we are continuously losing our ways to practice our religion and move forward in the right direction. I am a scientist myself and I understand how important and significant it can be on our lives yet I still maintain my bounderies and follow my religion as well. I entirely believe that we need scientists to favor both sides of the battle with reasonings for the respect of religion, and both should be taken accounted for, not the selection of one desire, Science or Religon.

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