Faith
...ber first hearing the name Charles Darwin and something called the “evolutionary theory” sometime around fifth grade. When I came to understand the idea of Darwin’s theory, I grew even more confused about the knowledge I’d been taught growing up. I was more shocked to learn that there were other possibilities about what I had been told than I was to actually comprehend Darwin’s explanation. By this point in my life I had learned that sometimes things you’ve grown up believing as truth, may not be truth at all. First there had been the Easter Bunny, then Santa Clause, but these now seemed miniscule compared to this; I never would have thought that something I had so much faith in could be challenged so strongly. I first felt resentment towards these n...