Hey, guys! I'm not really going to be joining this thread after a few bad experiences, but I would like to mention something about the theory of evolution. 

So it says that every animal basicly developed from each other. Hence, the Tree of Life. But, in discoveries of other scientists, we have discovered that fossil evidence and well-known theory contradict. According to Charles Darwin, it was easily possible that simple, single-celled organisms evolved over millions of years until they were mutated into millions of unique species and animals with different characteristics.

But, fossil evidence shows that there is a gap: if they evolved, why can the remains of simple organisms be found directly under the remains of immensely complicated, intricate creatures that have nothing in common?

There is no evidence whatsoever to back up evolution. 

In my  opinion, no offense meant to anyone, evolution is taught so that it can get God out of the picture.  

Okay, I guess... is debate already started? Sounds like it. But I just want to put my point in as someone who's 1. Catholic (Christian but not Creationist) 2. believing in evolution as a scientific process and most importantly 3. not Evolutionist. Just so people know that that is a legit position that's out there. 

Creationists believe that 1. God created the world and life on it and 2. Things like the age of the Earth can be calculated using the Bible and genealogy.

Evolutionist believe that 1. All life arose through evolution and 2. All life including humans arose through completely random processes. 

I'm Catholic. Because Catholic religion is very organized with the pope and bishops, etc., we have something called the catechism, which is like a book telling how the Catholic faith should be learned. This is written by the popes and by the gatherings of bishops and basically is THE rule on the Catholic tradition (beliefs not directly in the Bible but used in Catholic life).

Catholicism (or Christianity in general, but I'm trying not to generalize about what I don't know) and science are not mutually exclusive. If you've learned about Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, you'll know he was an Augustinian monk. He was Catholic and still made discoveries relating to how people come about (genetics). 

The catechism has a short section on evolution. Paraphrased, it says that Evolutionism (life = randomness) is a heresy. HOWEVER, Creationism is also wrong. The way Catholics believe is in the middle: As a scientific process that we can use to help figure out the world we live in, evolution is perfectly fine. Evolution does not explain how humans can believe and think and love and learn. The spirit of people, their hearts and minds (the metaphorical heart and mind, not anatomical), those can only be explained by belief. But evolution and science can help us understand the world and ourselves.

I'd just like to put this viewpoint as someone who is NEITHER Creationist or Evolutionist BUT religious and scientific. The world is not two-sided: there's always a third option. Sometimes being in the middle is the best thing to do. Sometimes you need to learn more about the issue. 

Soooooo...yes on the debate idea?

@Somebody, also there was a major archaeological discovery back in the 1900s somewhere, where scrolls where found in a cave in Israel by local shepherds. These scrolls (now known as the Dead Sea Scrolls) contained several books of the Bible such as Psalms, Lamentaions, as well as more. These scrolls were absolutely ancient, like before Christ's time if I'm not mistaken, and they had remained unchanged for that whole amount of time. Also, (I'm not trying to offend anybody, here, you guys are very intelligent and the Evolution model is very fascinating) one of the only alternatives is that we were created by an explosion out of nothing, that somehow, or complicated, life filled bodies and pretty much every other living and non living thing, was thrown together by random chance.  Now, like I said, even the big bang is a Christian-accepted possibility, but that's just as much a miracle as an intellegent creator is. But there's a scientific law that says life can only come from life, and that fits with creationism. 

I stand corrected by Somebody. The big bang wasn't a random explosion. BUT, let me challenge you with this. Where did those atom-sized particles come from?

Agreed, Air. We're all friends here, so please don't take offense to anyone's posts.  

Okay, are we debating creationism vs evolutionism, or something else? Whatever y'all want is good.