Aristotle is a Greek philosopher to whom we can attribute the basis of the concept of the Great Chain of Being, or Scala Naturae. This was Aristotle's attempt at making sense of living things' relationships. He was a creationist, believing that the universe is ultimately perfect. This implies that species couldn't and wouldn't change. He believes that each species is designed as it is, and has its own goal and purpose.
Carl von Linne, also known as Carolus Linnaeus, is another creationist. Known as the Father of Taxonomy, Systema Naturae is his greatest contribution to the field of science. In his work, he classified living things according to their degree of similarities. He popularized the use of binomial nomenclature which is today's basis of naming organisms in fields of biology.
During the course of his work, however, he believed that he was only unfolding God's unchanging order of life. Even though, Linnaeus embraced the concept of change in the forms of hybridization and variation. This was after he saw the possibility of hybridization with the cross-pollination of plants. Still, Linnaeus never accepted the idea of evolution.
All of these we tried to present in our poster. Making the poster was fun, seeing almost the whole class working together and having fun. It was bit exhausting since we were all trying to meet the deadline. Nonetheless, I was pretty sure everyone had a good time as we all worked joking and laughing.
Ever since, creationism has been a concept present to explain relationship among organisms. It came even before the Darwin's theory of evolution. That maybe is one reason why there are still some who propose the acceptance of creationism or ID as a valid scientific theory. People have the tendency of turning to divine beings when they can't find any feasible explanation to natural occurrences such as in the mythologies.
When I was a child, I used to read story books containing stories from the Bible. Such stories include the Creation, or how God made Earth and everything in it. It was the story I grew up with, especially since I came from a Catholic school. I believed God was responsible for everything. The first time I encountered evolution, I was surprised. I was like, "We came from monkeys?!".
Being introduced first to the idea of the teachings of the Bible, it is a normal event for someone to believe in creationism. That is one reason I see as to why creationism was such a popular concept back then. Religion was a reigning ideology at that time.
Fortunately, science gradually gave answers to the questions brought by change and variation among living things.
