Robert Martin writes, “So one is forced to conclude there is no clear-cut scientific picture of human evolution, period.”
And Meave Leakey, Leakey is a very famous name in human evolution, a noted Kenyan paleoanthropologist says, “It may never be possible to say exactly what evolved into what.” That’s pretty comprehensive. Spend your whole life to come to that conclusion.
Another Leaky, Richard Leaky, in an interview concerning the study of early man said, and I quote, “I think we’re still doing a great deal of guessing.”
David Pilbeam(?) commented, “There is no clear-cut and inexorable pathway from ape to human being.” As to whether man evolved from chimps, orangutans or gibbons, he said, quote, “The fossil record has been elastic enough, the expectations sufficiently robust to accommodate almost any story.” And in a further telling statement he says, quote, “Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark, our data basis too sparse, too slippery for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and our ideologies than about the past,” end quote.
And another Leaky, Mary Leaky, well-known anthropologist, commenting as to the effort that she had made all her life long to construct an evolutionary family tree, she says, quote, “I do not believe it is possible to fit the known hominoid fossils into a reliable pattern,” end quote. Of course it’s not possible cause it’s not the way it happened…not at all the way it happened.
In fact, you know, they shoot themselves in the foot. The oldest human fossil is identified as KP271, they believe that’s the oldest human fossil…evolutionary anthropologists have found. They dated at 4.5 million years ago. Now you and I know that the whole thing was done about six or seven thousand years ago, but they’ve got their own uniformitarian dating systems, evolutionary dating systems that are invented to accommodate their theory of evolution which they believe can only happen if you have enough time. And so they stretch everything out millions of years. The interesting thing about it is they say the oldest human fossil is dated 4.5 million years ago. And furthermore it seems that this human fossil appears on the seem…on the scene suddenly without any evolutionary ancestors. And if indeed this is human, the theory of human evolution is totally discredited…totally discredited because if you have humans 4.5 million years ago, then evolution can’t happen because that’s when they also date other animals. In fact other animals that they thought were in the evolutionary scheme are dated after that. They have a real problem.
And furthermore, the bones that are 4.5 million years old are identical to humans today. No evolution in 4.5 million years. I mean the whole thing is just a figment of their imagination because they do not like to retain God in their knowledge, Romans 1. And they have exchanged the truth of God revealed in Scripture for the lie. Men don’t want God and they don’t want the Bible, right? They don’t want God crowding their lives, they don’t want the Bible establishing moral standards for them. Scientists and those who follow their deception and hoaxes about evolution are like the Jews of Jesus’ day who said, “We will not have this man to…what?…to reign over us. We will not come under the sovereignty of God.” And so they fit into the classification of Psalm 14:1 and Psalm 53:1, “The fool has said in his heart there is no God.”
I understand the ungodly believing that. I understand the ungodly not wanting God crowding their lives. I understand those who love sin and want to commit sin, not wanting a moral judge looking over their shoulder and holding them accountable and sentence…sentencing them to eternal hell, I understand their desire to get rid of God. I understand why they don’t want to accept the first chapter of the Bible, why they don’t want to accept a clear record of Genesis. But I do not understand the ridiculous, intolerable affection for this deception which belongs to professing Christians. I cannot understand that. Even the prophet Malachi, Malachi 2:10, put it simply, “Has not one God created us?” We’re all the product of God’s creation. “All things are made by Him and for Him and without Him was not anything made that was made.”
The truth about the origin of man is that he was created as he now is. Adam wasn’t any different than you. In fact, if anything you’re not what he was. You’re inferior. And I’m sure that’s true not because of you personally, but because of sin.
Now we find out about the creation of man on day six. Let’s look at the text of Genesis chapter 1 verse 24. And the pattern of creation is the same as it was on the other days.
“Then God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind,’ and it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind and the cattle after their kind and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image according to our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him, male and female, He created them. And God blessed them and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’ Then God said, ‘Behold, I’ve given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed, it shall be food for you, and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that moves on the earth which has life. I have given every green plant for food,’ and it was so. And God saw all that He had made and behold it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.”
Now we’ve already been through the first five days of creation. The first five days really were outfitting the house in which man would live. Man is king of the earth. Man is the pinnacle of God’s creation, created in God’s image. And all the rest of the creation simply provided his house, preparation for man’s arrival on the scene.
And even on day six, as I just read, there was a finishing touch in creation. On day five, you remember, God had created all the animals in the sea and all of the birds in the sky, and so at the beginning of day six it was necessary to create the earth creatures who are identified in verse 24 and 25 in three categories; cattle, creeping things and beasts of the earth.
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
