If "Java Man" was just another fossil, over the centuries many fossils have been found and catalogued, then this latest find would be taken in context but the scientific community went ballistic and the newspapers, educational establishments and the high and mighty outdid each other to endorse this "link between humans and the ape". The secular world having thrown off all values, principles and standards heretofore related to religion now endorsed anything and everything that compounded that religious rejection.
Here is how another website described the fundamentalist fervor at the time. "Java man was trumpeted around the world as indisputable proof of human evolution. Textbooks and magazines were filled with fanciful reconstructing of ‘Java …show more content…
The evolutionary biologist Stephen Dawkins had a book called The Selfish Gene published years ago and in 1979 Philosopher Mary Midgley, in her essay Gene Juggling completely demolished his argument when she said, "Genes cannot be selfish or unselfish, any more than atoms can be jealous, elephants abstract or biscuits teleological." She went on to show that although Dawkins responded by saying that the description was merely a metaphor it was that personification that underpinned his whole concept and without it he is bankrupt. In this case Dawkins was caught out, found to have based his whole concept on the performance of genes that can do no such thing as he surmised (Mary Midgley referred to this as arguing from speculation about the emotional nature of genes) and yet he would squirm and wiggle and waffle to save face and still keep on with his strong and unsubstantiated beliefs ignoring all facts to the …show more content…
True science has given us airplanes, electricity, heart transplants, the computer, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and a host of vital everyday goods and services. True science takes what God has given, try to understand it, subject it to all kinds of experiments and tests and see what secrets it can reveal and marshal them for the betterment of mankind. This is absolutely compatible with God's will for mankind and Jesus affirmed this when he said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John
Here is how another website described the fundamentalist fervor at the time. "Java man was trumpeted around the world as indisputable proof of human evolution. Textbooks and magazines were filled with fanciful reconstructing of ‘Java …show more content…
The evolutionary biologist Stephen Dawkins had a book called The Selfish Gene published years ago and in 1979 Philosopher Mary Midgley, in her essay Gene Juggling completely demolished his argument when she said, "Genes cannot be selfish or unselfish, any more than atoms can be jealous, elephants abstract or biscuits teleological." She went on to show that although Dawkins responded by saying that the description was merely a metaphor it was that personification that underpinned his whole concept and without it he is bankrupt. In this case Dawkins was caught out, found to have based his whole concept on the performance of genes that can do no such thing as he surmised (Mary Midgley referred to this as arguing from speculation about the emotional nature of genes) and yet he would squirm and wiggle and waffle to save face and still keep on with his strong and unsubstantiated beliefs ignoring all facts to the …show more content…
True science has given us airplanes, electricity, heart transplants, the computer, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and a host of vital everyday goods and services. True science takes what God has given, try to understand it, subject it to all kinds of experiments and tests and see what secrets it can reveal and marshal them for the betterment of mankind. This is absolutely compatible with God's will for mankind and Jesus affirmed this when he said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John