Evolution Changes Its Mind Again
Posted by pmyrant on October 14, 2009
Latest skeletal find forces new theories about human origins
What they found...
Denver, Colorado – The most recent discovery in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift of older skeletal remains is yet another indication of the mercurial nature of evolutionist faith. As if giving the bones a name, in this case, “Ardi,” evolutionists believe it will humanize the find. The idea of humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature is now debatable.
Scientists assembled the skeleton from 125 pieces and announced the find, “One of the most important discoveries for the study of human evolution,” according to David Pilbeam of Harvard’s Peabody Museum. Because Ardi doesn’t have some of the characteristics of modern apes, evolutionists automatically tout the find as a link in human evolution. Not all agree.
Paul Myrant is the author of The Challenge of Evolution and an outspoken critic of evolutionary science. “Many assume that belief in a Creator or God is based on blind faith separate from reason,” says Myrant. “Educators keep telling their students, ‘Science is rational; belief in a Creator is irrational and reserved for the weak-minded, emotional, easily duped, uneducated segment of society.’”
What they "extrapolated."
“Bound to their subjective biases and misunderstanding of the true history of humanity,” says Myrant, “science is forced to change the ‘facts’ of their interpretation of the origins of man. Using the flawed and subjective dating methods of radiometric dating, science now believes that we walked upright several millions years earlier, and that we may have come from a different line of Darwinians evolution, not directly descended from chimpanzees.”
The latest find is based on the scientific worldview of naturalism, uniformity and anti-Catastrophism; a position that Darwin committed himself to hundreds of years ago. While many sincere scientists remain deluded by this atheistic worldview, the Christian worldview remains unchanged.
It takes great faith to believe in atheistic evolution, it is not reasonable to believe in an uncaused universe and earth, says Myrant. However because it is so widely taught as fact, people accept it as truth. “Everything has a cause and the cause must be greater than it effect,” he explains. “The cause of the universe is beyond the scope of scientific investigation. Logically, there must be a cause behind every event.”
Science cannot tell us with absolute certainty the cause of the universe and living things, they can only speculate about its origin and history. However, “Scientific commitment to naturalism and natural selection causes scientists to devote all, or at least most of their time and energy in defense of these anti-supernatural assumptions,” says Myrant. Instead of remaining open-minded, they entrench themselves within their belief system and look for evidence that support their presuppositions.
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