What happens to fundamentalist Christianity when "missing link" in evolution is found?

Question

Fundamentalist Christians say God made the Earth. They say there is no proof of evolution.

What happens to their faith when such proof is found that science views evolution like it now does the heliocentric solar system.

The church interpreted the Bible that the Earth was the center of the physical universe. Then the interpretation was no it means center of his universe not physical universe.

If such proof of evolution, a "missing link" was discovered, and the press confrence was had, would fundamentalist Christianity have to acknoweldge the adam and eve mythology is allegory?

Answer 1

Eyes shut, fingers in ears and hum as loud as they can, as is tradition.

Answer 2

The curious thing about faith is that, by definition, it requires no proof. Faith is a hope, a confidence, that what one believes is true and correct and right.

You demonstrate a touch of that same proof-less faith in your question. You ask what will happen WHEN the "missing link" in evolution is found. You sound awfully confident that what you believe is right! A less-faithful person would have replaced that WHEN with an IF.

I am speaking from the perspective of a Christian who acknowledges the fact of evolution and who holds that God is the prime mover who began it all and who oversees it all, right down to the minutiae of our everyday lives. I deplore it when my fundamentalist brothers and sisters fail to see that human knowledge and scientific inquiry is a gift from God - an opportunity for us to have a brief, incomplete glimpse at the wonder of creation. I also deplore it, however, when representatives of science reveal their hubris and imagine that they will ever be able to know all the secrets of the universe. The truth, my friend, is somewhere in the middle between their fundamentalism and yours.

Answer 3

There really is no single "missing link" however even if someone wanted to claim there were such key linch pins missing, we could say now that they have aleardy been found.

If however, there was some piece, so powerful that it got unianmous support from the media as the final proof, I think that yes, Christians would largely disband.

However, Muslims would not. All religious people rationalize, they must. But with Muslims, its an incurable mental disease.

Answer 4

Most scientists will tell you there can not be a single missing link. The changes happened over a wide time period so there would be many many missing links. Every time you found one, there would be two more needed on each side of the evolutionary scale.

Also, lets say you could find one. I could just say THAT is where God started with Adam and there is no relation to the apes.

Answer 5

It has been how many years already and no missing link has been found, has it? The most astute of evolutionsts will say that as well. I chose to live by faith, and if you think about it, it is this same faith that evolutionists live by as well, the simple faith to believe that there was such as a thing as a big bang without 100% certain evidence. Faith is the substance of things unknown, and I chose to follow the faith of my Father.

Answer 6

Well the missing link is "God".
Evolution is all based on theory...
Here's a theory for you;
Take a bunch of item what ever you decide and throw them in a jar shake them up and let them set for 50 -60 years whats going to happen to them? Will it produce life?
and not just life. but also life that has feelings and is able to see the many other beautiful things that live and reach out and smell them and be able to appreciate them . Will it be able to heal itself, or reproduce other life?
Will it be able to design something and build it?

Or would that all have to be by design?

So the real question is;
When it's realized that God is the "Missing link", will everyone then believe in God?

Answer 7

By the christian insisting on their being some "missing link" implies that they havent found some bizzare half way point between modern man and modern ape.

the issue is that we didnt evolve from modern ape. we had a common ancestor but diverged at one point in the past. You arent going to find the one particular anicent primat that happend to be the one point of divergence but you are going to find various points along the way that demonstrate the chainging evolution at any one moment in time.

WE HAVE FOUND THAT! A THOUSAND TIMES OVER!

and yet despite the ever growing mountain of evident to support natural selection and reenforce the facts about evolution, Christian keep clamoring for a "missing link" that they say should be the midway point.

they keep splitting hairs. its like refusing to believe in the number 2 just because you havent been shown proof of 1.5 and 1.75.

All that is needed to effectivly refute all of that crap is to point to any one of the thousands of transitional skulls found and say, "If God created everyting perfect and as it is today, why do these animals no longer exist?"

Answer 8

Every missing link you find creates a new gap.

Hypothesize that A evolves into B. You find a missing link, call it C. Then A --> C --> B. Now you need a D to connect A and C as well as an E to connect C and B. The demand for missing links will never cease.

Answer 9

I would say that something along those lines has already happen. I personally believe that God is the author of the universe. God's time is drastically different than human time. God counts in eternity. We count in seconds that lead to minutes that lead to hours, etc. I believe God began and guided evolution and Adam and Eve refer to the first human like creatures that were intelligent enough to believe in a higher being than themselves. Once they discovered God, He favored them until they used their free will to disobey Him, thus cursing them for the rest of time only to be redeemed first by the Ten Commandments and then by Christ. But hey, that's just my theory.

Answer 10

Look at history. Most of the so-called proof presented by evolutionists has been proven false. One small piece of some old monkey bone gets recreated into the skull of some early man. Even Darwin admitted he was wrong.

Answer 11

They'd ignore or claim it was false. Hey, they think God put dinosaur bones in the ground to test our faith, Jesus turned the water into a nonalcoholic wine, and that the sun revolves around the earth.