Pass the DNA, Please

By now everyone who watches the news has heard of "Ida," the fossil that humanist scientists are breathlessly proclaiming as a possible missing link in the evolutionary chain.

In a story by Allie Martin at OneNewsNow, she reported that "scientists in New York unveiled what they described as the missing link in human evolution, a fossilized skeleton reportedly 47 million years old. They said the creature -- nicknamed "Ida" -- had four legs and a long tail, was about the size of a small cat, and had human-like nails instead of claws, along with a bone in her foot that is similar to humans."

This story reminds me of the hoopla a couple of years ago when scientists who were studying the genome of some ape made the astonishing announcement that the animal's DNA was 99% the same as a human's, thereby proving the truth of evolution.

Imagine that! Who woulda thunk it? Wow, another brilliant victory for modern science! Joe the Bartender could have looked at an ape and a human and guessed that there was a lot of common DNA happening there. Are we to jump to the conclusion that because God created things that were similar that one must have evolved from the other?

Let us consider the puzzle of the lime and lemon. I'm not the sharpest crayon in the box, but I would be willing to bet my "Yes We Can" campaign button that if Mr. Scientist was to analyze the DNA of a lime and lemon, we would be hitting right around that magic 99% similarity mark.

So now we have to wonder, which came first: the lime or the lemon? Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle, with that 99% common DNA thing happening, something must have evolved from something! And don't even get me started on horses and zebras!

It takes more blind faith for a humanist to swallow the circular logic of evolutionary theory than it does for me as a Christian to just believe what God has told me. It makes perfect sense to me that in a world created with every conceivable type of animal and plant life, there will be some creatures with similar characteristics. Like any creative person, God often uses variations on a theme.

Of course if you're walking blind, without God, you have to concoct some kind of worldview that helps you make sense of all this natural splendor. That's how you stumble into worshiping the creation instead of the creator.