processes. While some variation within these species is possible (“microevolution”), it believes that there are fixed boundaries between species. Life forms can only adapt, not evolve, they claim.

This whole counter-argumentation against science focuses on biological evolution. Evolutionary processes are often described as "blind" by anti-evolutionists. Obviously, ”Darwinian evolution” could not foresee that humans would one day be needed. But is this any different from the processes of nuclear fusion in the stars or plate tectonics on Earth? Do stars and planets understand what is going on around them? Could hydrogen and helium, which were created in the Big Bang, foresee the need for the formation of galaxies and star systems? So, one might ask, why don't creationists condemn other scientific disciplines? This is probably because biological evolution threatens religion to the core. With evolution, God is clearly made superfluous in order to create us, humanity, or so they believe.

Now we have to ask: What explains evolution? The term evolution is defined in the Encyclopedia Britannica as: “A theory in biology postulating that the various types of plants, animals, and other living things on Earth have their origin in other, pre-existing types, and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations.” The term "cosmic evolution" is sometimes used to describe the formation of matter, galaxies and stars after the Big Bang. "Chemical evolution" could be equated with abiogenesis; life arose from simpler molecules in chemical evolution.

Evolution can mean many types of change. You could say: "The evolution of smartphones has changed the way we communicate." In society and culture, evolution can refer to the gradual change of societal norms, behaviors, values or cultural practices. Evolution can refer to the personal growth or change of an individual over time. There are countless phenomena that the word “evolution” can stand for in the modern world. Most importantly in this context, the theory of evolution does not claim that the entire universe has suddenly "mutated". Evolution is not a force that produces universes out of the emptiness. It is not a creation story in itself or an explanation for the existence of the universe, but a word used to describe its internal processes.

First, there must be matter, galaxies, stars, planets and all the chemical components of life, biomolecules. The star system must first form. Molecules such as oxygen, iron and carbon had to form inside the stars, and amino acids, nucleic acids and lipids had to combine. So where did the Milky Way and our star system come from? Well, the particles that make up all life began to form in the Big Bang. The formation of the universe began about 10 billion years before the first life forms appeared on Earth.

The Big Bang itself is a moment of infinite density and energy, a singularity that cannot be analyzed by science. The name “Big Bang” was given to the theory that predicted such a hot, explosive beginning by astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, who adhered to his favored “steady state" theory in which the universe has no beginning. In the beginning, there was a mathematical singularity that quickly expanded into four-dimensional spacetime. As the expanding universe cooled, the quark-gluon ocean that made up the early universe began to condense into hadrons, creating protons and neutrons. The fundamental force began to split into the field forces, gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force. The universe continued to cool and expand rapidly. Atoms began to form from protons and free electrons, and hydrogen gas was formed. After galaxies formed, the first stars were born from huge hydrogen clouds that collapsed under the force of gravity.

The term Big Bang conjures up images of the beginning of everything as “explosive". In Finnish, the term for the beginning of the universe literally means “beginning explosion”. One might think that matter was randomly dispersed in space. But after this “explosion”, we find a universe that is homogeneous and isotropic, that consists of the same particles everywhere and looks the same in all directions. After the Big Bang, matter was formed and divided into galaxies, stars and planets, forms of life and eventually us.

Evolution and creation, the standard opposition, are not the same level as explanations. Evolution is not an answer to the question of the cause of the Big Bang. So, evolution and creation are not mutually exclusive. One explanation deals with the formation of the tree from the ground on which it stands, the other with the way the leaves sprout from the branches of the tree.

Creationists often exaggerate the scope and importance of evolution. Evolution does not explain the beginning of the universe, nor should it. So the usual starting point of debates, “creation vs. evolution”," is a false dichotomy. The way creationists argue against evolution is misguided and misses the point. "It evolved" is no more an explanation for the existence of the universe than "it grew" is for the existence of a tree. Where did the tree grow from?

Since science is progressive and fills in the gaps in our knowledge, one can always say, "God foresaw the creation of man in natural processes - perhaps an omnipotent being is so farsighted." The only scientific discovery that religions could not stand up to would be if physicists proved that the Big Bang was due to a quantum flux.

Evolution does not say much about the existence of God. Only that God did not deliberately and directly "create" humanity, as described in many religious origin myths, for example. Evolution explains the changes in life forms over the last 3.8 billion years or so. Not the beginning of the universe with the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. That's a difference of about 10 billion years.

So, the theory of evolution is not an alternative to the Big Bang. But it is an alternative to special creation. If evolution occurred, then there were no baramins that were made separately by God. Evolution is not consistent with a creation account in which life is deliberately, consciously, intentionally and artificially created by a personal deity. In the biblical account of Genesis, most of the world is created in this way, through the deliberate acts of God. Day 1: Light and darkness: God said, "Let there be light"," and there was light. He separated the light from the darkness and called the light "day" and the darkness "night" Day 2: Sky and water: God created the sky and separated the water above from the water below. He called the expanse "sky" Day 3: Land and vegetation: God gathered the waters below the sky so that dry ground appeared and called the gathered waters "seas" and the dry ground "land" Then he commanded the land to bring forth vegetation — plants, trees and fruit. Day 4: Sun, moon and stars: God created the sun to rule the day, the moon to rule the night, and the stars. He placed them in the sky to illuminate the earth and show the passage of time. Day 5: Birds and fish: God created living creatures to populate the sky and the waters, and blessed them to be fruitful and multiply. Day 6: Land animals and humans: God created land animals, from cattle to wild beasts, each according to its kind. Finally, God created man, both male and female, in his image and gave him dominion over the earth and all living creatures.

successive aeons, each embodying different aspects of divine attributes. In the Sufi philosophy and mysticism of Islam, there is a concept known as the "breath of the compassionate" or divine breath. This breath symbolises the outpouring of the divine essence, and from it emanate different levels of reality known as "cosmic veils". In these accounts of creation, the universe is not created through a series of deliberate acts as in the Bible. Instead, emanations are more reminiscent of a continuum of naturalistic processes that followed the Big Bang. They look more like growth than a deliberate, artificial work of a deity.

To summarize, “evolution vs. creation”, the starting point of countless debates, is a false dichotomy. Evolution is not the explanation for everything. Biological evolution is at odds with the idea of special creation, the idea that all life was created more or less simultaneously by a deity.