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Understanding Darwin and God The fight between religion and evolution has been strong sense Darwin first introduced his idea to the world. The thought of a God not being the creator of all life was blasphemy in the eyes of society and especially in the church. Those who believed Darwin’s ideas were sometimes shunned from society. However, the theory of evolution, only gets stronger with time, as more and more people come to realize this, some people want to believe that both could be true, to try and make evolution and creationism compatible. If we want to believe that, if it is possible, some aspects of each side must be altered. First we must realize that evolution is a theory not a fact. You can interpret the Bible to allow for both creationism and evolution. The way we live our lives socially may also need to be changed. If we take the general concepts from each belief, we can incorporate one with the other, hopefully finding an equal medium. It was believed, in England before 1859 when Darwin first introduced his book The Origin of Species, that all species, even humans, had been created by the God of the Judeo-Christian tradition.1 The evolution that Darwin ‘preaches’ of in his book is only a theory, just like cr