A Comparative Study of Evolution and Religion in Education in the United States and ChinaBuddhism does not believe in a creator god. Accept modern ideas about the universe. Hinduism believes that first the universe existed, then the divine spirit awakened within it, sowed itself and formed Brahma, who is the God. Hinduism, similar to Buddhism, has an evolutionary perspective of life. Both religions accept Darwin's theory of evolution. Islam, Christianity and Judaism all share the same Mesopotamian mythologies (http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/sosteacher/re/37690.shtml). Over half of the world's population believes in these religions. They believe that the world was created by God in six days, as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis of the Bible. God created the heaven and the earth in the beginning, and on the first day He created the day and the night. Then on the second day he separated the water from the sky. On the third day God created vegetation, and on the fourth day he created the Sun, moon, and stars to govern the day and night. On the fifth day, God created living things that live in water and fly in the sky. On the sixth day, God created the earth to produce living creatures on the earth, and said: “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, over the livestock, over all the earth and above all all beings that move on the earth." God created man in his image and told him to be fruitful and multiply. On the seventh day, God rested from all the creation he had made. What is evolution? The Merriam-Webster dictionary contains many definitions of the term “evolution” (http://www.mw.com/). The one definition to which this article mainly refers is the following: “a theory according to which the various kinds of animals and plants have their origin in other pre-existing kinds and that distinguishable differences are due to modifications in subsequent generations”. Evolution is closely associated with Charles Darwin. The British naturalist was under the influence of Charles Lyell, who argued in his book Principles of Geology that the Earth was shaped by gradual, cumulative changes rather than major catastrophes. Darwin traveled with the Beagle around the world and collected specimens. He published his book Origin of Species in 1859. The two main themes of Darwin's theory are "Descent with modification" and "Natural selection and adaptation"..
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