Darwin - The Origin of the Species
What a strange book, and even stranger, where we went with it.
Today, there is a war between Creationism and Darwinism (Evolutionism) which is really weird.
Darwin was very much trying to find something that proved God exists. How weird that his name ended up as the title of the opposing view to Christianity. (Evolutionism is sooo little used that most people do not know it, including my spell checker)
To make it even weirder, God could have very well set up the universe to use evolution. And therefor, Evolution might be true, AND Creationism might be true. Both together, at the same time.
But things have gone off the rails
The ivory tower hierophants have this position that God has to be written out of science books, and so, Anthropology must write God our of their texts. And this has led to some really bizarre belief structures. Instead of following the evidence wherever it might go, Archaeologists routinely hide stuff they find, because if it was exposed, they would lose all of their funding.
So, now, anthropologists must seek, forever for, the missing link (said in Alfred Hitchcock's voice with much reverb)
The missing link? More like the missing chain
One of the most insane things in anthropology is the idea of "the missing link".
Everything between an ape and Homo Erectus doesn't exist.
We have 1000s of fossils of the ends, but nothing in the middle. The page on wiki showing the evidence for the missing link is the worst! Like a tooth here a finger bone there. We aren't talking full skeletons, not even one.
Further, comparing an ape's skeleton to a human's skeleton doesn't even make sense. Besides both having larger brains and having what we be considered hands and feat (as opposed to 4 feet) there really isn't much similarity.
The chimpanzee has a pyramid shaped chest, whereas the human has a barrel chest.
The chimpanzee has a muscle joined shoulder, the human a ball and socket
and on, and on, and on…
It could be argued that the mouse has a closer skeletal structure to human, than does a chimpanzee.
So, we are not looking for a missing link, we are looking for the whole chain, if there even is one.
It would have taken longer than the age of the universe
So, scientists have carefully studied mutations. And how often they occur. And then how often the mutation is actually functional. And then how often it can be passed down to children.
Well, they figured these numbers out, put them into a computer, and figured out how long it would take to go from proto-mammal to Homo Sapien. And, that number was, longer than the universe is believed to have been around.
This should have been the thing discussed in every Anthropology class going forward. But, it seems to have been swept under the rug. The search for the missing link chain is still underway.
New species are showing up
Up until now, all that the scientists have seen is species disappearing. And it is all said to be man's fault.
What happens incredibly often is that the disappeared species shows up elsewhere, where scientists weren't looking.
But still, something that anthropologists and zoologists aren't even looking for is starting to happen. New species are showing up.
My best example is this wild dog that is something between a coyote and a wolf, who have taken over the areas where a coyote isn't big enough, and the wolves find too small because of man's separations of environments. (roads, highways, farms) These new wild dogs breed true, so they are clearly a new species, but i haven't seen anyone talk about them that way.
And of course they wouldn't, because species die off, they don't just pop into being.
Fortunately, there will be more showing up. And zoology will have to start including these things that obviously exist. And then, anthropologists will have to scrap their theories for something much larger. Things like Rupert Sheldrake's Morphic Fields.
We will find out that the collective conscience of a species chooses the direction of its evolution. Both proving evolution, and disproving random chance evolution. It is going to get really weird, and i hope, a lot more fun for the scientists.
The concept of "the missing link" will be thrown out. We will find it, and realize we were thinking of the wrong chain all along.
We might not find proof for God, but we will find that consciousness effects a lot more things then we thought.
(We have free will to believe God exists or doesn't. And while we have that free will, there will be no proof. This does not mean that at some point in the future humanity gives up that piece of free will. We can really only go so far in science before we have to include God in our logic.)
All the supporting pillars for Atheism will be kicked out from under it. Atheism will no longer be considered scientific. Because things like Intelligent Design and Morphic Fields prove that there is something more going on than just random chance.
And the most important thing is we will start seeing how really fantastic the creatures on this planet are. How the structure of species is much more connected with all the other species and the earth. This web of life is truly fascinating.
Without the handcuffs and the straitjacket forced onto us from the atheistic ivory tower hierophants, we will be able to explore all the incredibly interesting areas that we posted off limits to scientists.