The Discovery of the 4.4 Million-Year-Old Lady---How Will it Affect Darwin's Theories?
Posted: Saturday, October 17, 2009
by Sandra E. Graham
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I'm sure you've all read about or heard about the discovery of "Lucy's" ancestor, Ardi. Ardi's fossilized bones were unearthed in the bad-lands of
Scientists surmise that Ardi walked up-right just as present day humans and yet she was well-equipped to spend time in the trees possibly picking fruits, nuts, or avoiding predators on the ground. Ardi's teeth, especially the canines are not the long sharply pointed weapons for fighting or tearing of meat that are found in Chimps and Apes. Rather, they were short and diamond shaped very similar to more modern man's canines---teeth more suited for eating fruits and vegetables and not for aggression and killing.
This seems to put quite a strain on the Darwinian theory that humans were descended from Chimps or Apes. Although
Darwin's theory of evolution is beginning less and less likely to hold water in the light of the great advances made in the fields of genetics, biology and biochemistry within just the last fifty or so years. Although there remain many questions about the fossilized skeletons found in
Here are some of
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. (Charles Darwin).
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? (Charles Darwin)
And here is one view with which I am more inclined to agree:
Truth alone is eternal, everything else is momentary. It is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth. ... All life comes from the one universal source, call it Allah, God or Parmeshwara. (Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi 1869-1948).
And, until someone can prove my Bible wrong, I will continue to believe that man was created by God, in God's image (whatever that image may have been millions of years ago).
Blind faith rots the brain. No point in moving forward when you're transmission's stuck in reverse.That may be true about 'Blind Faith'. But faith in God is not blind--I can see exactly where I'm going. Thank you very much. Some people, however, may need to have their transmissions checked??Sandra
Good article Sandra. I especially like your last line...(whatever that image may have been millions of years ago) I always find it a little amusing that the debate over evolution vs. creation doesn't seem to aknowledge that it doesn't have to be either or. Do they really think God couldn't have used evolution as his tool?Absolutely, Joyce. I have no doubt that God allowed evolution, science, or natural selection-----after all, they were all His creations in the first place.Thanks for reading and Welcome to Searchwarp.Sandra
If we evolved from another creature, which part evolved first in this gradual change? If we came from monkeys, for example, and its hand evolved first, wouldn't that make the monkey less likely to be able to flee its predators?And if he didn't survive to evolve further...? Natural selection says the strongest and fastest, etc. survive. Evolutionists cannot have it both ways here.By the way, Christians believe in natural selection, at least as it applies to animals in the wild. But natural selection only deals with species within their own kind and says nothing about evolving into another kind. Sure, the strongest dogs survive in the wild but not because they evolve into a horse or another creature.Sandra, you have it right saying we are too complicated to have evolved.Thank you for reading and commenting, Ogden. And Welcome to Searchwarp. No, I don't think we had to evolve. I think we were created with a brain--which we had to start really using to survive once we got ourselves kicked out of the Garden of Eden.Sandra
Your article started well and you had my attention. You raised the prospect of how fossilized discoveries were bringing Darwin's theories into question, but then threw a few quotes of Darwin's at your reader and then ended your article without dealing with the questions you raised.
