What Saith the Evolutionists?

"Bones of Contention; Controversies in the Search for Human Origins," by Roger Lewin, Simon and Schuster, 1987, is a fair, well written book. Lewin is a biochemist and a believer in evolution. The title is a quote by British anthropologist, John Napier. Napier, Louis Leakey and Phillip Tobias named, Homo habilis, a new species, in the mid 1960's. Lewin presents the conflicts between paleoanthropologists. This "science" arose with Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species in 1859. Placing science in quotes is based on this quote from page 289: "It is certainly true that in the spectrum of the sciences, from ("hard') physics to ("soft") biology, human evolutionary studies are usually regarded as being "soft." Space does not permit a review of the book. It is recommended.

Paleontologists Mary and Louis Leaky are Richard Leakey's parents. The book concerns Richard Leakey and Donald Johanson's debate about the ancestry of humans. Evolution is a given. Johanson discovered a rather complete skeleton which he dubbed Lucy at the Hadar in Ethiopia. In 1978 he and his colleagues classified Lucy Australopithecus afarensis and placed it as the ancestor of humans Homo sapiens. Mrs. Leakey objected on page 282: "'You've got to have Homo coming from somewhere, but I don't see why it should come from the southern apes.' [Australopithecus]" She continued, "I'm no anatomist. I've just got a hunch." [EMP. RLL] Her negative 'hunch' was because Homo habilis of Leakey fame was demoted in the evolutionary scheme.

Personalities, politics and philosophies have, and do, play an important role among those who search for man's origins. This quote on pages 40-41 by Sir Author Keith, a British paleoanthropologist of the l920s and 30s is enlightening, to the view expressed above. Keith speaks of what he calls an article of "Darwinian faith" saying that, "Nature is jealous of her species building. Progress-or what is the same thing, Evolution--[EMP. RLL]is her religion,; the production of new species is her form of worship." In my collegiate days that evolution meant progress was oft quoted. Early evolutionists considered the white race a product of that progress. Hitler used this superior species doctrine to underpin National Socialism. Western cultures which produce most paleontologists and paleoanthropologists abhor racism. Gone is racial evolution and that evolution moves toward nobility expressed by early writers. Evolution is driven by random chance. Chance does not admit of goals or nobility.

I might observe at this point that the scriptures never encouraged racism, opposing opinions notwithstanding. Jehovah instructed the Hebrews of Abraham's lineage, in Leviticus 19:34-35, to treat strangers well. The perfect law of liberty, in Galatians 3:26-29, states that race and social standing are of no consequence among those who obey the gospel in baptism. That which God spoke into being remains so. David sings of the product of God's creation in Psalm 19:1-3; 33:3-10. God's creation stands as it has been since the flood as stated in 2 Peter 3:1-7.

The atheistic evolutionist scoffs at the six day Genesis "myth." Eons of time postulated by evolution theorists are accepted even by some Christians. Popular Bible programs debunking organic evolution find room for the evolutionist's eons of time. The six days of creation are not an issue to some brethren. This is alarming. A crack in the dike of truth is opened. Fluidity concerning the creation days is a step toward accepting the theistic evolutionist's view that, broadly put: "God started the creation but left it to time and natural law to complete, or continue." Fossils dated to the time of the dinosaurs would not be considered by evolutionists as a near ancestor of man. This would violate an article of their faith that humans and dinosaurs were not contemporaries. A group of scientists who believe in the Creator have found considerable contrary evidence along and in the Paluxey River near Glenrose, Texas. The reader is referred to web site: http://www.bible.ca. The material on this site is not given a second glance by either evolutionist or religionists (including some brethren) who hanker for an ancient earth. If Bible days are questionable, what may not be questioned? Eons of time eliminate Eloheim the Creator.