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.
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.
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2 Comments:
As a roman catholic I think its a shame you choose to live in the dark ages. "Lucy" is an early homonid, not an ape. The earth is approx. 4.5 billion years old. The vatican and the pope accept evolution. 6 days in the life of the immortal god is many millions of years to us. Fewer and fewer people believe as you do. Twisting evidence to suit your purposes and telling lies is not christian.
Thank you for your comment, anonymous. Please check on the scholarship about Lucy. Although this fossil is still used to "prove" evolution, it has long ago been discredited. For example, Lucy has a lower jaw bone (mandible) that closely resembles that of a gorilla, not that of a human or even a chimp. This alone eliminates these bones as being related to humans.
It has long been known that Lucy is not related to humans. Dr Charles Oxnard, Professor of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia, said in 1987:
"The various australopithecines (the Lucy type of fossil)are, indeed, more different from both African apes and humans in most features than these latter are from each other. Part of the basis of this acceptance has been the fact that even opposing investigators have found these large differences as they too, used techniques and research designs that were less biased by prior notions as to what the fossils might have been."
This means Lucy is unique, not human, not chimp, and not a transitional fossil.
I'm sorry to hear you take the pope as your authority. It is obvious he has bought into the propaganda that force-feeds evolution into western culture. To accept junk science over and above what the Bible says is never a good path to take. I say "junk science" because even in our recent research (for our new video about the age of the earth) we could find no reliable evidence that the earth is billions of years old. By far, the preponderance of the evidence points to an earth that is younger than 50 million years, nothing close to the billions of years required by evolution. 50 million is the upper limit, it does not preclude 6,000 years as the age of the earth.
Study the original language of the Genesis. The Hebrew word "yom" means day. When used with a number, as it is in Genesis 1, it always means a 24 hour day. When used with the words "evening and morning", as it is in Genesis 1, it always means a 24 hour day. God spoke to us using words we could understand. He does not use "God days" that we could not understand. He uses days we can understand... a normal 24 hour day. He could have created everything in a micron of a microsecond, but he chose to create in six normal 24 hour days. Why? Because he set a pattern for the seven day week we see used universally around the world.
Genesis is a historical narrative written in plain language. Read what it says, don't read into it what you want it to say.
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