There’s no point in arguing with a creationist about the origins of life from an evolutionary perspective. It’s like arguing with someone that believes the Bush II Administration was an accomplished or virtuous Administration or arguing with someone that believes the impact of the Bush II administration terminated when Obama was elected. Clearly, these type of folks intentionally ignore the smorgasbord of facts before them.

Anyhow, creationists, travel the lazy road in interpreting the world and their surroundings. For example, they’ll conveniently consider and believe anything that doesn’t pertain to facts or rational thinking—certainly, that’s a sin. Creationists claim evolution is flawed. Consequently, they reject evolution.

Furthermore, since the truth isn’t always palatable, some anti-evolutionists have replaced evolution with intelligent design—a made up idea that isn’t backed by science. Not surprisingly, creationists reject the recent discovery of Ardi—”the earliest known skeleton of a potential human ancestor.” From ABC News:

“This is a meaningless discovery of another ape. As far as the creationist community is concerned, this is a big yawn. There is nothing about Ardi that has anything to do with the evolution of man,” said John Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research in Dallas.

That’s a tone significantly different than the one C. Owen Lovejoy, an anthropologist at Kent State University in Ohio, struck in a recent interview with ABCNews.com, when he called Ardi perhaps “the most important specimen in the history of evolutionary biology.”

For Morris and other creationists, the approach to handling new discoveries like Ardi by evolutionary scientists is twofold: fight the science and promote the Bible.

“People are talking about Ardi. It’s all over the news, so we have to explain it and answer people’s questions. We’re not making a theological argument, but a scientific one. The science of evolution is so flawed we have to be opposed to it,” Morris said.

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