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Biblical Argument's Theory Of Evolution Or Micro-Evolution?

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The word theistic means God and cam from the Greek word theos. I am choosing to do my topic on theistic evolution. Theistic evolution means believing in both god and evolution at the same time. The first border of evolution states that there is a god, but he was not directly involved in the origin of life. This view is like Atheistic evolution. Some people would suggest that god created the initial building blocks of matter and allowed the evolutionary process to take over (Thompson). The Theory of Evolution can be divided into two parts, micro-evolution and macro-evolution. Micro-evolution deals with small changes within a species which adapt that species to be better suited to its environment. In this paper, I will be discussing the biblical

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