The Theory of Evolution

When we were younger, the idea fed to us regarding the theory of evolution was that it – quite literally – meant that our ancestors were monkeys (much like the ones we saw in Disney’s Tarzan or National Geographic). We were made to understand that the common as well as professional opinion on the matter was of satire, that the only ones who believed in it were, for their own reasons, people who refused to accept either religion or even God.

As I grew up, I learned the exact opposite: the theory of evolution is the most important theory in all of biology according to most scientists and researchers. It is as important to biology as plate tectonics is to geology, as one man had put it. So what are the misconceptions that have pushed most of the world to reject this very important idea?

Common Sense

The first time I heard of the quote “Common sense is very uncommon”, I thought of it as a funny piece of truth. However, that is when it first occurred to me, who’s to say what’s right is not left? Who has the right to define logic as safe and sound? After all, logic is the basis of every science ever known, from music to chemistry, and is a list of rules and theories of the way the universe works or supposed to work, but have you ever thought that logic started with a ‘this is that’ mindset, not based on reason, but on experiment?

For example, to say that early man was probably experimenting with different vegetation to find what is edible or not, and probably classified them on a basis of what harmed him, and possibly what tasted better. But later on, man found that some foods cannot be eaten raw, but cooked, other foods served as medicine when properly used.