You find some interesting information about that in a book by Roger Lewen(?) called Bones of Contention, I mentioned that last week as well. One of the other supposed transitional forms is called Nebraska man. The only evidence, by the way, for Nebraska man turns out to be a pig’s tooth…quite a leap. The skulls of the famous Peking man are considered by many experts to be the remains of apes that were systematically decapitated and exploited for food by man. The classification Homo-erectus is considered by most experts to be a category that should never have been created…with regard to them.
The first confirmed limb bones of Homo hibilis have recently been discovered. They show that this animal clearly had ape-like proportions and should never have been classified as homo or manlike.
And then australopithecines, as I mentioned last time, which were made famous by Louis and Mary Leaky, found most in South Africa, are quite distinct from humans. Several detailed computer studies of the australopithecines have shown that their bodily proportions were not intermediate between man and living apes at all. Further study of their inner ear bones that were used to maintain balance show a striking similarity with those of chimpanzees and gorillas but a complete difference with those of humans. One of the fossils, a three and a half-foot tall long-armed 60-pound adult called Lucy…you remember the discovery of Lucy…was initially presented as evidence that the australopithecines walked upright in a human manner, however studies of Lucy’s entire anatomy, not just a knee joint, now show this is not true. Lucy, I hate to tell you, swung from trees.
For about a hundred years the world was led to believe that Neanderthal man was stooped and apelike. Recent studies show that this erroneous belief was based upon some Neanderthals who were crippled with bone disease such as arthritis and rickets. Neanderthal man, Heidelberg man and Cro-Magnon man were completely human, artists depiction of them, especially of their fleshy portions, are quite imaginative and not at all supported by the evidence. And so it goes.
And furthermore as we have been saying all along, the dating methods of evolutionists are grossly in error as well. So bottom line, they don’t have any transitional forms. They don’t have any proof for the evolution of anything, certainly no proof for the evolution of man. And the reason they’re having a hard time proving it is because it didn’t happen and therefore it can’t be proven.
What did happen is recorded for us in the Bible. Let’s go back to Genesis chapter 1. On the first day, according to verses 24 and…on the sixth day, I should say according to verses 24 and 25, day six featured the creation of land animals. Cattle, I mentioned this last time, would be domestic and tame. Creeping things, all the creatures low to the ground…beasts, four-legged, non-domesticated animals. Having done that we then come to verses 26 and 27. And here we find the creation of man. It occurred immediately, ex nihilo, as it were, God brought man into existence in his immense complexity instantaneously, created Adam full grown and then as chapter 2 indicates later on created a helper, Eve, full grown, fully functioning as well.
Now everything that was created up to the point of the creation of man, both male and female, was to provide the environment in which man would live and in which man would enjoy the blessing of God and for which he would thank and praise God the creator of it all. As wondrous as all created life was, as good as it was, and God said it was good, as intricate and complex and vast as it was, it was nothing like a man. It was separated from the nature of man by so great a gulf as never to be passable by any natural process. Nothing could ever become a human…nothing. No fish, no sea mammal, no reptile, no monkey, no ape, no gorilla, no creature could become a man. We’ve already gone over that again and again because of DNA genetic coding, that is impossible.
But there is another component that can’t be found in the DNA. There’s another component that is wonderfully mysterious and it is introduced to us in verse 26 by the words, “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.’” And verse 27, “And God created man in His own image, in the image of God.” And then as I read you earlier in Genesis 5:1, “In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.”
This is man’s unique identity. This is the part of man that cannot be reduced to genetics. This is that mysterious spiritual part of man that can’t be put into a test tube. This is that part of man that cannot become…that cannot come into existence by a mutation or a transition. This is the image of God.
Now verse 26 starts, “Then God said,” and verse 27, “And God created.” It’s the same formula. God says and God creates, and really they are synonymous. God says let it happen and does it. Only this time there’s a very important difference…a very important difference. For the first time a major language shift occurs. Never before has the text said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.” Never has God spoken in a plural form. Every other time, “Let there be…Let there be…Let there be.” It is impersonal. Nothing that God has created to this point has any personal connection to Him. You need to mark that because that is a very important issue to understand. The language is impersonal…let there be…let it happen…and God speaks it into existent…existence, creates it but never identifies personally with anything that He has made, not with light, not with water, not with elements, not with the sun, moon, the stars, the stellar bodies, not with the earth, not with the separation of the land from the sea, He has no personal relationship to those things…not with birds, not with swimming life and not with land animals…no personal relationship exists…no personal involvement exists, either in time or eternity. There is no bird that is related to God in any personal way. There is no, sorry about this, dog or cat that is related to God in any personal way. There is no creature related to God in any personal way until we get to this point.
At this point God becomes personal and He begins to speak in relational terms, “Let us make man in our image.” And God for the first time in the Bible introduces Himself, now listen carefully, in a relationship. Up to this point it’s just God. But now God defines Himself with plural pronouns, “Let…not let Me…Let us,” and we are introduced to the fact that God has within His very nature relationships. That can only occur when there is more than one. We are now then introduced for the very first time to the fact that God is a trinity. And, of course, it’s been hinted at because the word for God, elohim, has a plural ending, but this is specific. Now all of a sudden we have been introduced to God who is more than one and we are introduced to the relationships within the trinity by this statement, “Let us make man in our image.” And now all of a sudden we are introduced to the great reality that there is an executive divine committee, that there is an executive divine council. We got a little bit of a hint of that back in chapter 1 verse 2, God creates at the beginning of verse 1, and then in verse 2 we are introduced to the Spirit of God moving over the surface of the water.
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
