Apologies in advance... Ive written numerous times over the years, both here and in emails and other media, that I disagree with the conventional, anthropological assumptions about human evolution and the origins of man. Please hear me out before you click back on your browser... Its not that I dismiss biologists right to believe in their theory of evolution. I wasnt there millions of years ago, and, therefore, I cant say for certain what exactly happened. But neither can scientists. They are going on faith as much as fundamentalist Christians do. But lets not miss the point here... Science has said for decades that we have a fossil record that PROVES scientists theory of human evolution and removes any doubt or dispute from the issue. Poppycock and balderdash. With each passing year, we learn of more and more archaeological discoveries that call into question not only the theory of human evolution, but of the history of life on earth in its entirety. Just last week, there was an article in the news about an exhibition and scholarly study in South America that demonstrates human activity in the Americas tens of thousands of years earlier than scientists believed to this point. Many anecdotal stories have arisen in the last year of other minor discoveries which radically shift timelines of geological and evolutionary assumptions held so dear by scientists (including biologists and geologists). And today, I found this story that demonstrates that the fossil record itself - the chain of human ancestry - may not be so proven after all. (cnn/2013/10/17/world/europe/ancient-skull-human-evolution/index.html?hpt=hp_c3) So today, I have another occasion to speak my mind on this topic - not that people really care, but Im saying it nonetheless. Scientists have THEORIES about the origins of man and life on earth, which have, to date, never been proven unequivocally. Scientists BELIEVE in these theories, even though theyve never found the missing link or other key artifacts which would conclusively demonstrate the accuracy of their theories. Yet they dig on. And they preach on in the classrooms, browbeating young minds until they parrot the same unsupportable nincompoopery the professors spew, because disagreement and dissent is cause for poor academic grading in todays liberal and anti-Christian collegiate system. And professors continue to mumble these incoherent and fantastic notions in their zeal (and pressure from tenure committees) to publish peer-reviewed articles worthy of high-brow journals, in an effort to seek validation and distinction in a huge crowd of also-rans. Then Skull #5 comes along and creates major questions in the basic assumptions upon which a house of cards in the scientific community is built. An artifact which so clearly and awkwardly ignores the assumptions. It rejects the conventions and the arrogant know-it-all perspective of the academic community and challenges the tweed-wearers to review anew their most basic beliefs about the world we live in and where we came from. It is at that moment, when the rug is pulled out from under the professors in their dark and dusty chambers, that the Christian can chuckle and point back to the tattered old Bible sitting on the coffee table, where it has been loved and well-worn for decades after being handed down generation after generation, and the owner can say without hesitation that the story in THAT book has never had to be rewritten based on something dug up from the ground. I make lots of room for scientific study. I believe that continued perseverance by mankind to ferret out the darkest and hardest to reach secrets of humanitys existence will ultimately lead to a greater good. I believe that in the fullness of time, we will see that the truth of mans origins are not inconsistent with or contradictory to the broad description in the Bible, regardless of whether that includes a Big Bang, homo erectus, apes, or primordial soup. But I do NOT allow for the arrogance of most modern scientists, who refuse to acknowledge that Christians may very well be correct, and that God may exist and be responsible for the creation of man. For at some point, even back to the primordial ooze, we must still confront the ultimate question - Did someone MAKE this, or do we have absolute proof that it occurred spontaneously? And that, my friends, is where scientists and Christians are the same. We must BOTH act on faith in our own beliefs, whether those are in the Bible or in the textbook. Both groups have bigots who refuse to acknowledge the potential truth in the others position. I choose to believe that both may be right. But its discoveries like these that I find so entertaining to shove in the face of the arrogant evolutionists to remind them that, despite their vigor and boastful and repetitive preaching of their own version of the gospel of mankind, they really cannot state to a certainty that they are correct or that they are even close. It has been too short a time in this path of discovery to be able to assume anyone in our scientific community has truly gleaned all there is to learn from the dirt under our feet. And even then, artifacts are only evidence - not narratives. We still wont know the history of the items we find in the dirt. Take heart, Christians... Though Darwins and Hawkings be ever at your door proclaiming their superiority, truth will out.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:28:55 +0000
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