Scientists are abuzz over the release of fossil findings
that claim to be much older than previous human remains and
come closer to the elusive missing that bridges the gap
between the evolution of apes and humans.
For starters,
I'm not a big believer in evolution. I believe God
created man from the dust of the earth, not through millions
of years of gradual changes as the strong survived and the
weak died out. It bothers me greatly that this is
taught as scientific fact in schools for the simple reason
that it is called the theory of evolution for a
reason. If it's a theory, that means it hasn't been
proven or it can't be proven. And if it is a theory,
alternative points of view should be discussed but those
come from religion and apparently religion has nothing to
teach us so it should be removed from public school at all
costs.
Perhaps more frustrating about the Ardi finding is
the fact that scientists are jumping to conclusions about
what this new fossil teaches us. It appears that Ardi
walked on two feet like a human and had many other human
like traits that scientists didn't expect one of our
"ancient ancestors" to possess so early in our evolution.
Based on one skeleton scientists are rethinking everything
they know about early humans.
Rethinking things is fine
when new evidence is presented. I'm all for that. But
the way these new conclusions are being trumpeted as if we
have finally find the answer to all that we were missing is
absolutely ridiculous. This is one skeleton. It
happens to be far more complete than some of the previous
heralded finds but still just one skeleton.
What puzzles me more than anything about science's search
for the missing link is how little evidence there is
compared to what we can still find from what supposedly took
place millions of years before man was on earth.
Dinosaurs supposedly died out 65 million years ago - Ardi's
remains date back only about 4 million years. Why are
there an abundance of skeletal remains from 65 million years
ago but nothing of ape/human remains. You could make
the argument that dinosaurs were much bigger and their bones
would take much longer to break down and decay than a
human's. But I would have to believe that 60 million
plus years is more than enough time to make up for the
difference in size.
While scientists trumpet this latest
proof in the evolution of humanity, I'd recommend that we
take everything with a grain of salt. I believe the
Bible for what it's worth and believe that God created me
special, not as a long term science project with apes.
But using sciences own criteria I feel fully confident that
in a few more years there will be another "big discovery"
that will change the way we look at early human history once
again.
