The risk of evolution

When talking about controversies, risks can be looked at in two ways. First there are the risks that you normally think about - those involving some sort of danger or loss. These risks aren't overly relevant to the evolution-creation controversy, as there isn't really any danger or potential for harm that comes from taking once side or the other (except maybe from the point of view of a creationist looking at an evolutionary atheist - going to hell is bad for your health).

The second kind of risk, and the one that is probably more relevant to this controversy, is the uncertainty risk. These risks involve being uncertain about the outcome of the event. Uncertainty applies to this controversy in that we can't really prove either side wrong currently. There's no proof a God doesn't exist, and there's no proof evolution and natural selection don't occur (and there's more and more proof that natural selection makes new species). It's also uncertain in saying that we don't know what evidence will come up in the future to change how we understand these two lines of thought as they currently are.


Edited afterthought:


I suppose in this case there is another level of risk involved. The risk of the other side winning this debate. If science wins and creationism is completely ignored, then there is the chance other aspects of religion will fall within society too. The reverse is also true, if creation wins over evolution then we may find that other debates such as the origins of the universe/earth or GM foods (I use these examples because they are also being discussed by other class members) may become more controlled by religion, or that religion may once again dictate how society progresses as it did in centuries past.