Re: Ether and Evolution and Infallibility

[Evolvinghuman]

Here is a paste from the book regarding the issue:   "Second, there is a discussion about radiocarbon dating, which is our best method for dating fossils less than 30,000 years old. Let's go back in time to 1912. At Piltdown near Sussex a skull had been found in a gravel pit that had a modern braincase and orangutan jaw. This was immediately dubbed the missing link. That is the link missing in the Darwin's biological tree of evolution that shows humans evolved from modern Apes (Darwin actually said old world monkeys). Around the same time, on Oct 10, 1912, there was a speech given at Stanford University on this topic. The speaker was not a scientist. The speaker was Abbas Effendi, commonly known as Abdul-Baha, the son of Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith. We discussed some of His thoughts on evolution previously. In discussing anatomical evolution He says: "They find that his anatomy has undergone successive changes, finally assuming human form, and that these intermediate forms or changes are like links connected. Between man and the ape, however, there is one link missing, and to the present time scientists have not been able to discover it. The lost link of Darwinian theory... will never be found." ('Abdu'l-Baha: Promulgation of Universal Peace, pages 358-9)       What a contrast of opinion between scientific community and Religious community! We talked about tests before. This is an example of those tests of faith that the people at that time had to endure. Luckily, in the Baha'i Faith Religion and Science are compatible. On this particular issue, it didn't seem to be so until 1953 when scientists using radiocarbon dating proved that the Piltdown skull was a fake. I hope that the rest of this writing has proven His word that between modern man and Ape there will not be a missing link. Fariborz __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, use subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu