More media bias

Ok, so anyone who reads my blog knows I am a Christian conservative.  One thing conservatives routinely claim is that the major media is heavily biased toward liberalism.  In the case of Christian conservatives. we claim that the media is also biased against Christianity.  Many write us off as being weak-minded or conspiracy-theorists.

Well, here's another case in point of the bias.  From this Associated Press article:

Surprising fossils dug up in Africa are creating messy kinks in the iconic straight line of human evolution with its knuckle-dragging ape and briefcase-carrying man.

The new research by famed paleontologist Meave Leakey in Kenya shows our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, calling into question the evolution of our ancestors.

The old theory was that the first and oldest species in our family tree, Homo habilis, evolved into Homo erectus, which then became us, Homo sapiens.

But those two earlier species lived side-by-side about 1.5 million years ago in parts of Kenya for at least half a million years, Leakey and colleagues report in a paper published in Thursday's journal Nature.

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That makes it unlikely that H. erectus evolved from H. habilis, researchers said.

It's the equivalent of finding that your grandmother and great-grandmother were sisters rather than mother-daughter, said study co-author Fred Spoor, a professor of evolutionary anatomy at the University College in London.

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That old evolutionary cartoon, while popular with the general public, keeps getting proven wrong and too simple, said Bill Kimbel, who praised the latest findings.

He is science director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and wasn't involved in the research team.

"The more we know, the more complex the story gets," he said.

Scientists used to think H. sapiens evolved from Neanderthals, a closely related species, he said, but now know that both species lived during the same time period and that we did not come from Neanderthals.

Now a similar discovery applies further back in time.

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All the changes to human evolutionary thought should not be considered a weakness in the theory of evolution, Kimbel said. Rather, those are the predictable results of getting more evidence, asking smarter questions and forming better theories, he said.

 

If this isn't proof of a bias, I don't know what is!  The article does a great job of presenting the facts - that there is SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE that the evolutionary model is FLAWED.  Then that last paragraph has the scientist saying it should not be considered a weakness in evolution theory.  WHY NOT??!!!

A truly fair and unbiased article would have included a quote from someone from the creationist point of view pointing out that EVOLUTION IS JUST A THEORY and that these findings prove that other theories are viable.

But the AP couldn't do that.  Because it would make it look like Christians might actually be RIGHT!  It would give the folks saying that evolution should not be the only theory taught in schools some leverage.  Clearly, the media can't allow that.  Opposing viewpoints are not welcome!

Oh well.  I'm still glad the article is out there.  Because even though the final perspective was not opposed in it, hopefully there are some folks who will read it and remember once again that science doesn't have all the answers.