A Must Read: Evolution's Theory of Perhapses and Maybes

One of the drums that is beat over and over again from evolutionists is that it is a proven fact. Yet, go to any museum which promotes evolutionary view (which the far majority of them), watch a program which assumes evolutionary theory (which is the far majority of them), or listen to an evolutionists talk about the theory (and I use the word "theory" on purpose) you will often find the lack of certainty. This point has been made a lot over the decades, but in a recent WORLD Magazine article, Marvin Olasky makes it brilliantly.

How definitive were the exhibits [at the Spitzer hall of Human Origins]? One, titled "Interpreting the footprints," depicted two ancient, hairy hominids walking together. The larger male had his arm around the smaller female. The explanation in small print explained, "To create the scene in front of you, experts interpreted footprints left behind. ... Here a male and a female walk together. Was it a mother and child instead? Possibly. We'll never know for sure, but this scene is consistent with the evidence." 

It was encouraging to see the small print on many of the display cases admitting uncertainty—"Perhaps ... perhaps ... may have been ... may well have been ... seems ... seems ... seems ... appears to be ... suggests ... suggests." But a video screen showed a continuous loop of genotype pioneer Francis Collins, the National Center for Science Education's Eugenie Scott, and Brown professor Kenneth Miller expressing Darwinian certainty. Miller insisted that disbelievers in evolution want to turn biology into "little more than stamp collecting." 

With apologies to philatelists—the Hall of Human Origins exhibits are little more than stamp collecting, because the evidence for humans arising from animals is insufficient. While a big sign proclaimed "Our family tree," small print on one exhibit acknowledged, "Unfortunately, hominid fossils from the crucial period between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago are quite rare." Unfortunate for those who claim the evolution vs. creation argument is over, when recent discoveries of cell complexity mean that it's just begun. 

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The honest curators of the Hall of Human Origins have my sympathy. They are like priests in a diocese destroyed by pederasty who have to cover up their concerns and pretend that all is well overall, despite the anomalies, uncertainties, and complexities. I appreciated the half-honesty revealed in their perhapses and maybes . . .
The fourth floor displayed not only dinosaurs but humility: "No one knows what the colors of dinosaurs were when they were alive. ... This evidence does not allow us to draw conclusions about parental care in extinct dinosaurs. We can only make guesses." 

Astoundingly, the dinosaur experts undercut the Darwinist propaganda loop in the Hall of Human Origins: "We cannot be sure how pachycephalosaurs used their skull caps because theories about the behavior of extinct animals cannot be tested." That's what many creationists say: Scientific research emphasizes experimentation, and we cannot experiment on the past. 

One sign on the fourth floor generalized rightly: "While it is important to make intelligent speculation about extinct animals, we are overstating the strength of the fossil evidence if we present these ideas as truth." Students in schools should hear both evolutionist and creationist theories. They should then learn what we know scientifically—and what we do not.

So, is evolution a fact or a theory? I think we should take the evolutionists at their word. Its a theory.


WORLD Magazine - Perhapses and maybes


For more:
Blogizomai - Some Things Never Change: Why Evolution Is Contrary to the Gospel
Blogizomai - Doubting Darwinian Fundamentalism: Olasky on Evolution's Heresy Hunters
Blogizomai - On Why Darwin Still Matters
Blogizomai - "Does Revelation Teach Us Evolution?": The Prince of Preachers on the Question of Evolution
Blogizomai - Expelled: A Film About Freedom, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
Blogizomai - The Mising Story: Ida and the Search For Secular Validation
Blogizomai - There Is No Such Thing As Atheists: Hawking's Curious Theism
Blogizomai - Before There Was Time: Hawking on the Origina of Everything
Blogizomai - Evolution Animated & Refuted
Blogizomai - "Our Beliefs Are Formed First": Michael Shermer and the Truth About Science
Blogizomai - "In the Beginning God" by John Lennox
Blogizomai - We're a Bunch of Idiots: The Extent of Vanity Fair's Argument Against Creationism