Why the Hoax?
by Kathy Brown on July 6th, 2009 | 0 comments
Perhaps you noticed the latest "missing link" skeleton? This is finally it! They found our relative which bridges the man/ape connection. My family tree really is a tree? After I Googled to see for myself, I had to laugh. You have got to be kidding: that's it?
All of my growing up years I studiously walked the halls of natural history museums. It never occured to me that these great institutions could be making all of that ancestory stuff up. I began, like they did, with the assumption that I was a very excellent monkey. Looking at the remnants of the ape world, I tried to imagine those fossils further along: no tail, upright, skin on and talking. One thing about that whole scenerio I liked was that I could act like I sprung from the wild kingdom. Any urges to be selfish were part of my "survival" instinct. Very nice.
When I went to the zoo, the huge gorillas did seem humanlike. They had facial expressions, fingers that could work tools and even a family orientation. They sure looked and acted like me, only I had lost the tan and texture. That thought creeped me out, though. How easy would it be for someone to treat me to a cage of my own, if I wasn't as smart or sophisticated as humans "ought" to be?
Once I began to read the Bible, I was in for a shock. As I rearranged my thinking, ideas began to pop like corn in the microwave.
If God were an artist, like a painter, what would He use for all of His creating? Basically the same materials, so likely everything would have similarities and yet differences.
If God wanted to separate out those who believed Him from those who didn't, wouldn't evolution be an interesting test?
How did the first asexual glops get to be sexual reproducers? Ah, how would that simultaniously work?
If there was only one link (which has been discovered and discounted several times) shouldn't there be more such transitions found that explain other jumps from lower to higher life forms? Where are they?
Why don't human beings have other kinds of babies? Newborns seem to always be like their parents.
These are not, granted, the inquiries of a genius. My admission could be disturbing because it emphasizes that I'm not likely one of the "fittest". It has come as wonderful assurance that my worth is not based on my intelligence, ability to scrounge food or outsmart everyone.
One very important, profoundly disturbing question remains: why the evolutionary hoax? Why lead so many astray, and often at a very young age? Is there not enough evidence to support a Designer that made all things? Just take a trip to the Creation Museum (www.creationmuseum.org) in Kentucky and see the Planetarium, the Special Effects Theater and the Dinosaur Den. It will gratify the soul and be a refreshing comparative science lesson.
So, what's the answer . . . why the repetitive, insistent evolutionary hoax? Go figure.
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