The fall of Reiner Protsch von Zieten, a Frankfurt professor of anthropology, ought to give chills to those who persist in interpreting scripture in light of the latest scientific "evidence." Turns out he has lied and manipulated data for 30 years in order to "prove" early humans in Europe. One skull once asserted to be the oldest human remains in the area at 27,400 years old was found to be that of an elderly man who died in 1750. A skeleton thought to be 21,300 years old was actually only 3,300 - well within the limits of young earth creationism.
It frustrates me that Christians twist and strain scripture to fit in with scientific thought that changes freely. Once I had a conversation with a thoughtful informed Christian who was surprised that with my background in biology, I was a young earth creationist. He propounded a theory that perhaps animals lived and died ages in the six days of the creation story - that their death (without souls) could have occured within the parameters of "very good" before the advent of people and sin. I countered that the fossil record showed these supposedly ancient creatures dying of cancer and violence - hardly "very good". He was shocked, he'd never known there were fossils that showed this. Would someone tell me why in the world someone who knows that little about the science of the fossil record would base his interpretation of scripture on the light of that science? No wonder people think we are idiots.
The lesson is... those who judge God's eternal Word by the theory of the day, may find that not even the evolutionary scientists are standing with them in the end - for it was his fellow scientists that exposed Protsch's fraud.
H/T WorldNetDaily
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