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Where do I come from? A spiritual response to theories of man's origin
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
“You can’t tell me I came from that,” my mother exclaimed. She was usually a mild-mannered woman, but this time she was speaking vehemently. We were in the monkey house at the zoo, about ten years after the 1925 “Monkey Trial,” when John Scopes was put on trial for illegally teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. The theory was widely interpreted as arguing that human beings were descended from apes. Scopes lost in this much-publicized case and was fined a hundred dollars.
The controversy between Darwinians and creationists had begun many years before the Scopes trial and ran very deep.
Darwin’s theory, which included the concept of the “survival of the fittest,” seemed cruel to me. If only the fittest survived, what about the others? What was evolution saying about those that did not survive? Was it saying that they are worthless?
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