Who Is Seeking The Truth?

Those who believe in evolution say they are only seeking to find the truth. They contrast this with Christians, who they claim are religiously biased and who ignore the scientific facts. The debate between evolution and creation is depicted as the unbiased truth seeker vs. the biased, ignorant creationists who reject scientific truth.

What this boils down to is saying that whoever does not agree with me (the evolutionist) is biased and ignorant. Whose bias is showing here?

Paleocarthropologist Donald Johnanson is the discoverer of the Lucy fossils. At one time Lucy was thought to be the oldest human fossil. This has been discredited and we now know Lucy is nothing more than an ape-like creature similar to a present day pigmy chimp. Dr. Johnanson, in his book "Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind" (1981, page 277), writes:

"There is no such thing as a total lack of bias. I have it; everybody has it. The fossil hunter in the field has it... In everybody who is looking for hominids, there is a strong urge to learn more about where the human line started. If you are working back at around three million, as I was, that is very seductive, because you begin to get an idea that that is where Homo did start. You begin straining your eyes to find Homo traits in fossils of that age... Logical, maybe, but also biased. I was trying to jam evidence of dates into a pattern that would support conclusions about fossils which, on closer inspection, the fossils themselves would not sustain."

"It is hard for me now to admit how tangled in that thicket I was. But the insidious thing about bias is that it does make one deaf to the cries of other evidence."

Paleontologist Martin Pickford, who is an evolutionist, and who worked with Leakey and some of the world's top anthropologists, wrote in his book "Louis S.B. Leakey: Beyond the Evidence" (1997, page 48)

"The motivation for publicity and its travelling mate, power, heavily influenced the way that some people presented their fossil discoveries to the world. The propensity to exaggerate the scientific value of a discovery was commonly present, even it it wasn't really worth all the media attention. How often have we heard that such and such a fossil find completely overturns all previously cherished theories? How often has a fossil been announced as being older than it really was? Or more complete, or bigger, or better, or more significant?"

The Christian approach is to seek the truth. Christyianity is based on truth. Jesus said that he was the truth. He did not just say he told the truth, he said HE WAS the truth.

"Jesus told him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life.'" - John 14:6

For Christianity to build its foundation on anything but the truth, means the end of Christianity. Yes, men (and women) try hijack Christianity it use it for their own purposes. But we always need to do what the Berean's did (Acts 17:11) and search the Scripture to be sure what someone claims about Jesus (the Word), is true.