"...science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein

As we approach the year 2000, we are still embroiled in a debate that has raged throughout this century. Is the diversity of life we see on this planet, including human life, the result of evolution, or was it created by a superior being? With all the scientific knowledge and tools we have available to us, why is this still an issue? There are several reasons:

• Many people have faith in the creation account as it is presented in the Bible, and are seeking scientific evidence to confirm it, and thus disprove evolution.

• Although there is plenty of evidence for adaptive changes in species, we do not, in recorded history, have evidence of one type of animal changing into another type.

• The fossil record does not show the gradual changes leading to entirely new types of animals that Darwin predicted, and intermediate species are hard to find.

• There can be errors in carbon dating and other methods that are used to determine the age of fossils and the Earth itself.

• DNA and RNA comparisons between similar and dissimilar species at times confirm evolution, but in other circumstances are inconsistent.

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