Ida is making headlines around the world.
You heard it: this fossil is being hailed as the "missing link" in human evolution. What should we think about that?
One thing we should certainly consider is the overwhelming problem with the whole idea of a missing link.
Darwin's theory of "descent with modification" indicates that we should find a rich, wide-spread fossil record, documenting the gradual evolving of primitive life forms into what we see today. There shouldn't be a missing link at all; there should be millions of links and we should find them all over. But such a fossil record simply doesn't exist. What the fossil record does show is stasis, that is, stability, not evolution.
Darwin himself asked in the Origin of the Species: "Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?" Excellent question! Darwin's answer: we'll find the evidence later.
Evolutionary paleontologists have been looking hard every since. And they just haven't found it.
In unguarded moments, event modern proponents of Darwinian evolution admit the evidence simply isn't there.
World famous evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould went on record stating: "The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution." A persistent, nagging problem.
He also wrote: "The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology." Trade secret, hmm.
And, the extremely rare evidence that is presented is open to widely varied interpretations. There are, for example, many highly respected scientists who challenge the exceptional value of Ida.
Ask yourself which takes more faith: believing that chaotic forces that we don't understand caused random evolution from extremely simple to extremely complex organisms over millions of years without leaving the evidence in the fossil record, or that there is a Creator of supreme intelligence who designed all the functional, stable, complexity that we see around us?
The Bible suggests that those who claim they believe God doesn't exist aren't being entirely truthful deep down inside.
It says: "They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God" (Romans 1:19-20 NLT).
It's time to get back to this simple truth. It's time we acknowledge the fatal flaws in Darwin's theory. It's time we evolve—in our thinking.
For GN Magazine, I'm Joel Meeker.
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