Evolving Evolutionary Debate

Interesting post on some new fossil findings which is casting new light on outdated Evolutionary theories.

The post is relatively short and written for novices as myself. Some key excerpts:

The recent analysis of H. habilis and H. erectus fossils recovered near Lake Turkana, Kenya, in 2000 muddies the place of H. habilis in human evolutionary scenarios and widens the gap between H. erectus and modern humans.

This conclusion spawned headlines in a number of popular media outlets that challenged the validity of human evolution. (For example see here and here.) As is often the case, the headlines exaggerated and sensationalized the implications of these fossil finds.

For human evolution to be declared a fact, anthropologists must define the evolutionary route that transformed an ape-like creature into modern humans—replete with a progression of intermediate forms. The insight gained from this recent work highlights how far evolutionary biologists are from establishing this requisite understanding.

Just goes to show, scientific advance is a much more complicated, step-wise route of progress and what high school text books, the media and popular culture would simplistically assume.

This post if from Reasons to Believe. A ministry, headed by Astrophysicist Hugh Ross , dedicated to exploring and "providing powerful new reasons from science to believe in Jesus Christ". I've found the majority of their research to be well founded, clearly presented and consistently faithful to the Bible.

In a nutshell, this ministry adheres to all basic tenets of the Christian faith - including the inerrancy of Scripture. Stemming from the words of the Bible, they also believe that creation depicts the nature and character of the Creator. Thus, they purport that a truthful study of nature should align with a faithful exegesis of Scripture.

Specifically, RTB promulgates, among other findings:

1. A testable, Scientific model for Creationism - one which support an old Universe/old Earth view. (I may write more on this later.)

2. That the Earth was populated with advanced (multi-cellular) life forms through carefully controlled miraculous intervention by the creator.

3. That fossils of early hominids are real, but that these creatures were animals similar to modern apes, lacking the unique capacities of human spirituality and sophisticated intellectual, physical, artistic and social capacity.

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