It Didn’t End With the Sophists: Richard Leakey Explains the Fact of Evolution Will Someday Be Supported By the Evidence and, In Any Case, the World Wasn’t Created

Plato’s destruction of the sophists unfortunately didn’t take and you can almost hear John Lennon’s Imagine as you read today’s AP piece on legendary evolutionist Richard Leakey promoting the usual man-is-the-measure-of-all-things fallacies evolutionists adore, all encapsulated in 900 words. In their value-laden world where they deny the existence of values, Leakey and the evolutionists warn that catastrophes are looming due to man-made climate change (“We may be on the cusp of some very real disasters that have nothing to do with whether the elephant survives, or a cheetah survives, but if we survive”), equate evolution with all that is good (“If you get to the stage where you can persuade people on the evidence, that it's solid, that we are all African, that color is superficial, that stages of development of culture are all interactive. Then I think we have a chance of a world that will respond better to global challenges.”), deny the possibility of science without evolution (“how do you combat new pathogens, how do you combat new strains of disease that are evolving in the environment?”) and claim that the fact of evolution will someday actually be a fact (Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist expects scientific discoveries will have accelerated to the point that “even the skeptics can accept it.”). This is all standard evolutionary red-meat that the world embraces (“Earlier this month, Paul Simon performed at a benefit dinner for the Turkana Basin Institute. IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond and his wife, Peggy Bonapace Gelfond, and billionaire hedge fund investor Jim Simons and his wife, Marilyn, were among those attending the exclusive show in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.”). Most importantly though is the religion that underwrites Lennon’s religion-free religious utopia:

You can lay out all the fossils that have been collected and establish lineages that even a fool could work up. So the question is why, how does this happen? It’s not covered by Genesis. There’s no explanation for this change going back 500 million years in any book I’ve read from the lips of any God.

That’s a powerful proof for evolution but it is not from science. Our religion tells us God did not create the world so we supply our own myth that the species and the world arose spontaneously—that something came from nothing. It contradicts what we know from science but no matter, theology remains the queen of the sciences. And that theology, like the creation myth, is man-made:

If you tell me, well, people really need a faith ... I understand that. I see no reason why you shouldn’t go through your life thinking if you’re a good citizen, you’ll get a better future in the afterlife.

A good citizen? Compare Leakey’s man-made theology with God’s Word:

The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
They have all turned aside,
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.

No not one? Compared with evolutionary theology that sounds rather hopeless and impossible. But as Jesus Christ explained, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” He should know, He did the saving.