Has Darwin's theory of evolution had a strong effect on American society? Has it mostly been good or bad?

So much of it is academic peer pressure; it’s not wanting to be different. As Dr. Ross Olson has said, “There is strong peer pressure, even a herd instinct, in science” (Peer Pressure and Truth). We are so indoctrinated in molecules-to-man evolution, and many people are intimidated (e.g. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed).

As the Chinese paleontologist J. Y. Chen said, “In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government.

In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin. Dr. Cornelius Hunter is right: “In the life sciences one's alternatives are to be a Darwinist or to be a Darwinist. Passing grades, letters of recommendation, graduate school admission, doctorate exams, faculty hiring, and tenure promotion all require adherence to the theory of evolution.

The lists are long of otherwise qualified candidates who could not take that next career step because they did not conform to the Darwinian paradigm. Academia, and the life sciences in particular, have undergone a long period of in-breeding and it is hardly surprising that, as the National Academy of Sciences' booklet triumphantly declares, ‘The overwhelming majority of scientists no longer question whether evolution has occurred’” (Critique of NAS Report on Evolution). The things is, scientists are human and share the same weaknesses as all the other members of the human race.

They are fallible human beings with limited knowledge and limited understanding, and like every human, they hate to be criticized and are subject to bias and preconceived ideas, and they don’t want to lose their grant money or be denied tenure. Neo-Darwinian evolution is a belief system about the past based on the words of men who certainly don’t know everything and who were not there. And history shows that the scientific establishment has been wrong time after time (can you say “phlogiston”); that is why the science textbooks constantly have to be revised.

Often, the bold pronouncements of scientists are contradicted years or even months later. Theories that were lauded as undeniably true by yesterday’s scientists often turn up in the dustbin of science history. There are literally hundreds of scientific theories that were rarely even questioned, and yet we now look at them as pseudoscience or merely mistakes of the past.

As each century passes, so does many of accepted scientific theories held dear in that century. Every generation thinks they have the monopoly on truth (that they have the answers to life’s great questions), and subsequent generations just laugh when they look back. Look at the Scopes trial.

Ironically, the very arguments used in Darrow’s biology lesson to convince everyone that evolution is true have virtually all been discredited and thrown out by evolutionists themselves. They use different “evidence” now. Although they are in the minority, here is a growing list of scientists who signed “A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism”: http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/...

Darwin's theory was that everything was created and evoluted from a microbe about three billion years ago. There is a lot of eve since to support it, eg survival of the fittest. There are other theory's eg Lamark, he believed that if an animal uses a trait during its lifetime tha it would pass that trait onto it's offspring.

He was proven wrong when they did a lab experiment with rats and they cut off it's tail and breeded it and it had offspring like normal rats. Darwin's theory has evidence like no other theory and it can't really be proven wrong. It is just a theory but there are people like Christians who choose to believe differently and they do teach other subjects in school like R.E. so people can look into other beliefs.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.