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Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Gen 1:31 God looked at everything he had made, and he was very pleased. Evening passed and morning came---that was the sixth day.

I bought a 20 peso-second-hand book titled “The Naked Ape” by Desmond Morris and it was a very interesting book. Mr. Morris, an evolutionist, collated researches, theories, and speculations and then compiled them in this book. His annotations and analysis were interesting and one that caught my attention was this:

Before man became hunter he was an aquatic ape. He is envisaged as moving to the tropical seashore in search of food, at first he will grope around in pools and shallow water and gradually venture out in the depths. During this process it is argued, he will have lost his hair, only his head protruding from the water would retain the hairy coat. This may explain the direction of his body hairs; they point diagonally backwards and inward the spine following the pattern of water passing over a swimming body; reducing resistance. Finally, this maybe the reason why the fossils of the missing link had never been found, paleontologists were looking at the wrong place, they should try looking near sea-shores. (pp. 37-38)

Hmmmmm…

This was new to me and it made me realized how far people would go to deny the existence of creative design in life. But there are inconsistencies that should be considered before adopting the evolutionist’s views on the origin and the diversity of life. And another thing is it is not science alone that discovers and defines truths. How many times have science been proven wrong? From Ptolemy to Copernicus, Newton to Quantum Physics. In the future how one can only asks how many theories will be refuted and new theories proposed to be debunked again for a new proposal to be refuted again—scientific truth is contingent truth; it changes with new discoveries, new instruments, new technologies, and at the new way people look at things. Maybe truths that are encapsulated in myths (not that myth), myths are the only eternal truth for their truth is in the telling of the experiencing of that truth (bit confusing, eh...).

How about the limits of the five senses? Scientific truth is defined the naturalist way—if it can be observed, quantified and qualified. But scientists believe in black holes, white dwarf and all those cosmological and astronomical phenomenon whose existence is difficult to prove even theoretically. Who has seen an atom? Belief in all those equations may not be that different in belief in the myths (not that myth) in the bible. Faith is what they are, these belief in mathematical equations.

Anyway, life will not be decided on laboratories or theories but on how we see life
I’d rather be a stupid creationist who sees beauty and order than an intelligent evolutionist who sees chaos and anomalies. I just look at my daughters face and I’m 100 percent sure of God’s creative powers, and when I look in the mirror I’m sure of His...err…never mind, God does not commit mistakes.

Another thing, the evolutionist’s view that we evolved from the apes for me is questionable, and now they are proposing that we also evolved from the ducks. No way, Jose!