National Geographic's Central Tendency

A 2004 issue of National Geographic held a real surprise. The editor (or an editor) acknowledged in the first paragraph of a one page article that we did not descend from apes. No. You read it right! The most thoroughgoing evolution supporting magazine I can think of (other than The Smithsonian) contained such a revolutionary statement. Of course, once again, we had no evidence cited for this rare but true conclusion.

My good feelings about the temporary "sanity" of the richly illustrated magazine didn't last very long. A very long article followed about how Darwin was absolutely right about evolution. Supposed transitional forms were discussed as well as much evidence for micro-evolution--what ID people and creationists recognize as mutation, natural selection, and adaptation. But, of course, our argument isn't with micro-evolution; it is with macro-evolution or transition from one species to another. Micro-evolution within a type of organism accounts for the wide divergence of shapes, size, behavior, and color of dogs, sheep, people, birds such as Darwin's finches and all the other species expressing such differences. No surprise here. Macro-evolution, however, describes the change from a bird to a reptile or other such fanciful notion. This has never happened at any time through any process upon planet earth.

The good news one can glean from that issue of the yellow magazine is that there may be a slight backing off and redefinition of what evolution is in the light of rapidly improving technology that Darwin couldn't even imagine in his day. Not that National Geographic will jump off the horse of evolution it has been riding for about a hundred years just because the dam of false science is thoroughly breached and an overwhelming flood of good sense is rushing down.

The long article mostly defended micro-evolution. Could this be a strategy adopted by Darwinian evolutionists who are afraid their favorite myths can't stand up beneath new technology clearly revealing an intelligent design described in Genesis and elsewhere in the Bible? I think so. It looks like a finger from the hands strangling public education, true science, faith, and our culture has been pryed up just a little.

Following the Darwin story comes a story of people blending together Christian beliefs and catholicism with animism. The attack against Christ continues unabated.