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Why I Chose Evolution Over Religion!

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Both evolution and theology are awesome ideologies! They both describe the origin of life in their own interesting way. Of course, religion is a more popular concept than evolution, as most of us are born into one of the religions in the world (no choice there) and most of us continue to blindly follow it as we journey through life. Also, it is a fundamental law for the religions to “pooh-pooh” the concept of evolution. Though there are several differences between the two ideologies, I would like to list just two of them that I deem most startling:

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Akula, S.M. (2019). Why I Chose Evolution Over Religion!. In: Essays on Life, Science and Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28775-7_4

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