Hi
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Last week, the issue we wanted to highlight (regarding ape-like creatures turning into man) concerned bias. We all have pre-conceived ideas about things, including how we got here - origins. It's part of our world view.
Another lesson to be learned is that we should never just jump on anyone's bandwagon. Many people believe things they hear often because it comes from a source they think is reliable, like magazine articles or college professors. We consider teachers or people who write the articles to be intelligent, knowledgeable, and truthful about issues they teach or write about. Normally,
this would indeed be the case.
However, mistakes and misinterpretations often surface! In the case of evolution issues, discoveries are often heralded on the front covers of newspapers and magazines as evidence, but then when they are retracted, very little attention is given to the story. Consider that back in the 70s, a group of "primitive people" (the Tasaday, illustrated
above, still "stuck back in the Stone Age") were discovered in the Philippines. Then, the story turned out to be a ruse to support the evolution model of human history. Another was the case of Piltdown Man, discovered in England in 1912. By 1953, it was determined to be a hoax! Many people trusted these authoritative sources.
And that brings up another lesson to
be learned -- Be very careful of where you place your trust. People (and yes, creationists, too!) can be wrong about things, even if they are considered to be authorities. The one source of information that you can trust completely is God's Word, the Bible. Even though many people over the ages have taken the message/s to task, nobody has ever found anything untrue within its pages.
In it we read that God created man in His own image, to be unique in all He made. The story of ape-like creatures turning into man is pure fable.
