Weekly Poll for June 8

Today Christians have a variety of views on how the Earth was created, whether by God in six literal days, the GAP theory, intelligent design (God created animals as they are over thousands of years), and theistic evolution (God used macro-evolution to create all life).

Now while evolution on a small scale has been widely accepted (also known as micro-evolution), the theory of Macro-evolution as its known has been greatly challenged by the Christian community. Interestingly enough, the original theory proposed by Darwin, also known as Phyletic Gradualism has mostly been debunked or rejected by the scientific community… yet this remains the leading theory people think of when considering evolution (animals slowly changed into new species over millions of years).

Today’s leading theories for evolution include Punctuated Equilibrium theory (animals morphed into new species almost overnight), Punctuated Gradualism (a mix of Phyletic Gradualism and Punctuated Equilibrium), and Quantum Evolution (the rate of evolution greatly differs from each type of species).