Living Christianity #4 - The Link that is Still Missing

Once again, scientist and paleontologist made the headlines by exclaiming that they have "once again" found the missing link - this time from the fossil of a fish. The link that is supposed to "prove" that man is a product of evolution - that our existence started from an amoeba. Seriously, I need more faith to believe that my origins stem from a single cell organism than to believe that I am a product of God's mind.

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I had wanted to exercise some apologetics, but figured I did not know enough to refute every claim made by these learned people. So instead I will try to use reason.

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In the field of medicine, there is a common saying. "If you hear hoof beats, assume horses not zebras." Doctors are advised not to read too much into their initial findings. I believe the same principle can be applied to the quest to find the origin of man.

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When someone finds a fossil of a fish with vertebrates (back bones) and one without, why can't they have a more simplistic view that one fish has got what the other fish doesn't? Why must they postulate that the fish without the vertebrates is the ancestor of the fish with vertebrates and that one evolved from the other because of natural selection? Again, with all the different "ape" men being excavated. Why can't they conclude that they were perhaps another living thing altogether? Instead, they insist that those ape man was our ancestors with absolutely no concrete proof whatsoever. Their reports are filled with words like "perhaps, could, would, imaginable" but sorely lacks solid scientific PROOF that their findings are irrefutable.

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Over the years, I have listened to many preachers pastors teachers, preaching pastoring and teaching against the idea of evolution using the Word of God (the Bible). However, there is only one ratiocination that truly sealed my beliefs. This person chose to appeal to our common sense to rebut the theory of evolution.

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[ I am walking down the street. I am on the sidewalk and I see in front of me quarters (US$0.25), scattered, 8 quarters. If I see 8 quarters scattered on the sidewalk in front of me, I can look at them and conclude that this was an accident, someone dropped them. But if I come down that same sidewalk and I see those same 8 quarters in 2 stacks of 4, side by side, I must conclude someone put them there. Why? Because this demostrates order. So the universe of law and order tells us of intelligent design, we cannot say it's an accident. ]

- Dr A.R. Bernard

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Evolution? Yeah right... ...