CREATION Vs. EVOLUTION

Kirk Cameron Links Darwin to Hitler!

2009 is a momentous year for Charles Darwin. On February 12th, 2009, he turned 200 years old! And on November 24th, 2009, his landmark book, On the Origin of Species, will turn 150 years old. We are of the opinion that he was perhaps one of the greatest and most influential thinkers in a 1000 years.

However, Growing Pains TV star and evangelical Christian, Kirk Cameron, is determined to rain on Darwin’s parade. Cameron has accused Darwin of being a racist and a misogynist, giving inspiration to Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. Cameron's Creationist backers have printed 50,000 copies of an edited version of On the Origin of Species which contains a 50-page preface expounding the fallacies of Evolution and Darwin's alleged racist and women-hating tendencies. They will be distributed to students on college campuses all over the United States.

~ Video of Kirk Cameron linking Charles Darwin to Adolf Hitler.

But we think it is unfair and unethical to judge Darwin by the standards of our current generation. For him to talk and behave like us during the 19th century would have seemed bizarre and alien to people back then. Clearly, Kirk Cameron and his Creationist supporters are trying to cleverly manipulate people's sensitivities in regard to hot-button issues such as racism and sexism to their advantage.

Traditionally, Creationists hold the view that Darwin was wrong due to the fact that there are no fossil records of species-to-species transitional creatures. They are referred to as the "missing links". However, Evolution – more correctly, Natural Selection – can be proven without fossil records. Fossils are rare. And most fossils that survive are mainly of established species which had been around for a long time. The fossils of transitional species during times of natural changes would be harder to find.

However, one of the greatest blows to Creationist theory may have been uncovered recently. The fossils of "Ardi", a man-like creature that is the oldest relative of humans (about 4 million years old), was uncovered and is considered to be the most important scientific discovery in a decade. And to scientists' surprise, she's more like a human being than an ape. In other words, as proposed by Darwin, humans did not evolve from apes. Rather, man and apes evolved from an ancient ape-like common ancestor, and each went their separate ways through the evolutionary process. In other words, there might not necessarily have been a creature that was "in between" apes and humans, thus explaining the absence of transitional species fossil records. In our opinion, Ardi is the "Missing Link" that Creationism solely relies on.



For more info on the "Missing Link", click here.