Diminishing the Gap of Hierarchy: The Evolution of Christian Clothing

Human civilizations have evolved throughout the centuries. And this evolution paved the way to the emergence of industrialization, urbanization and globalization, which eventually affected some special areas in our lives such as our livelihood, culture, tradition, and even religion. Some examples of the most significant changes we have experienced are the improvement of the tools we use (from stones to polymers), the clothes we wear (from animal skin to synthetic fibers), the house we live in (from caves to mansions), etc. And speaking of clothes, we can never ignore the increasing trend nowadays of wearing Christian clothing. Clothing includes shirts, caps and other accessories which carry biblical messages on them. A lot of factors have brought the evolution of clothing but the two most prominent of these are none other than human intelligence and imagination.

As human beings are being affected by the evolution, all types of societies and communities are being influenced too. That is, they become more and more vulnerable to outside forces and inevitably become more and more open to new ideas. Communities learn to communicate and share with each other through trade. They exchange valuable products that they think the other party needed the most. Pagan communities gradually became Christians, and barbarian people slowly became refined. And this Christian conversion never cease, as we can see by the gentle conversion movement through Christian clothing. Christian clothing is actually a peaceful way of sharing one's faith with other persons. And clothing is developed to change other people's hearts for the better.

This type of evolution in the community or society does not only happen in large scale; it also happens to small units or groups such as the Church. Perhaps the most important change that happened in the Church is the use of English and other popular languages in preaching and in re-producing the Bible, as a substitute for Latin. This step helped diminish the gap between the clergy and the laity. Another significant change is the modernization of Christian clothes worn especially during Sunday masses. Before, it was the tradition to wear fine clothing during Sunday but now, it is highly encouraged to wear informal clothing. And to encourage this type of clothing, some Christian artists and businessmen targeted the clothing designs. Christian clothing nowadays has urban designs which allow us to wear them anytime, anywhere.

This change to informal Christian clothing most benefits the youth of this generation. They can openly express themselves to others and to their Church community without being look down on. And as a sign of this support for freedom of self-expression through clothing, some businesses are now printing and selling Christian clothing and accessories that will let everyone express their faith no matter what they are wearing. What's more, these youngsters can choose the clothing that best fit their personality and the design that best represent what they believe in.

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Evidence For Evolution - A Nested Hierarchy

One of the overarching pieces of evidence for the evolution of life on earth is the idea of a nested hierarchy. There are several ways to categorize different items, but things related by a common ancestor will show a particular pattern of categorization.

For instance, let's consider automobiles. Automobiles could be classified by make, then by model, then by year. Or they could be classified by year, then by make, then by model. Or any other myriad classification schemes, all of which would be correct. If two people start with a list of cars, they will both come up with perfectly valid yet very different classification ideas. This is because automobiles are each created independently; while they share an "evolution" of sorts as far as technology goes, each car is created as its own separate entity.

But compare this with languages. Assuming you are familiar with language, you would classify Spanish and French together as Romance languages, and English and Scots under Old English, and Old English under West Germanic. Languages can only be classified in one way, and two different people starting with the same data will arrive at the same classification scheme.

This is called a nested hierarchy, and alone is enough to show strong evidence of common ancestry.

Life on earth shows this type of pattern of groups nested within groups nested within groups. Of the animals with a backbone, there are mammals. Within mammals, there are marsupials and placentals. Within placentals are cows, and bats, etc on down to individual species. While some of the details of specific family groups are still controversial, life shows this unique pattern which alone is strongly indicative of common descent.

Following from this principle, biologists can construct family trees of different groups which aid in classification and predictions in fields as diverse as embryology and paleontology. For instance, the family tree of baleen and toothed whales predicts a common ancestor around 35 million years ago that has features of both, and this fossil has been found.

Nested hierarchy alone is almost enough evidence to strongly imply common descent, if not directly the idea of the Darwinian mechanism of random mutation coupled with natural selection.

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