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 Ethiopia. The bones were dated as being some 4.4 million years old, making her much older than the ‘Lucy' skeleton which was dated at 3.2 million years old. Ardi's fossilized bones were found in close proximity to those of Lucy, so it would seem these two hominids may have been ‘distantly' related.
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 wasn't the first person to bring up the ‘theory of evolution, he did bring into the equation, the idea of the ‘process of natural selection'. Natural selection is the act of preserving the more advantageous genetics and eliminating the weaker---sort of saying: "only the strong survive". It is common practice today for people to use natural selection to breed certain types of animals. Darwin's theory is that natural selection came about gradually and naturally over a very long period of time.
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 Ethiopia, there are still the glaring realities that bring more and more into the question the scientific theory that man evolved from apes.
Here are some of Darwin's comments on science and religion:
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).
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