Having seen chimpanzees work with such determination, Dr. Jane saw, "up-close-and-personal," the interconnectedness between man and ape, between man and his world like never before. Her life was, from that point on changed. She now works as a humanitarian, empowering youth to affect change in our world for a better future. She is founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and it's educational organization, Roots & Shoots, whos goal is to promote service learning, and help students create change by becoming actively involved in solutions to community problems.
It was Louis Leaky and his second wife Mary, of National Geographic fame for their million year old fossil discoveries, who were responsible for Jane Goodall’s studying of chimpanzees. The Leaky’s, who believed the chimpanzee would provide the missing link between species, are the scientists who commissioned Jane to work for them in Africa.
In her book, In the Shadow of Man, Goodall said Leakey choose her even though she had never received a formal college education to do this work. He chose her because he "wanted someone with a mind uncluttered and unbiased by theory that would make a study for no other reason than a real desire for knowledge.”
She must have proved herself to be smart as she worked for Leakey because her work earned her an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University in 1965 and she received another in 2005 from Syracuse University as well.
Jane Goodall, along with Philip Berman, has written a book titled, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey. (2000) about her life and research. It is written to give us who are human greater insight into spiritual understanding she obtained from all her work with apes.
She believes in evolution, and in her book, Jane tells of her shocking discovery that chimpanzees' have a capacity for evil. She watched as they held what she thought of as ruthless cannibalistic attacks on members of their own community and relates this to the shocking reality of humanity’s capacity for evil too, and uses “Auschwitz” Germany, the time of the Holocaust, as an example of humanity's own propensity for evil. Referring to people as “the human ape,” she also describes us as “half sinner, half saint, with two opposing tendencies inherited from our ancient past pulling us now toward violence, now toward compassion and love." (Reason for Hope, pp.143). But the truth is that "evolution" of man from the ape is not an observable scientific fact; it is at best, conjecture; and since it is not observable or reproducible it boils down to something people believe in, and base their live upon, something that by “faith” their minds and hearts believe.
Her book is called REason for Hope, but at the core of all their "spiritual belief," evolutionists like Jane Goodall, have no real hope. For this reason they spend all their time on earth demanding that they get their fair share and being worried about the existence of the earth so much more than human beings. They believe , after all, that life upon this thing called earth began by chance, and without an entity called God. They believe they know exactly how everything was billions of years ago, even though they were not there nor have any witness of the matter to tell them about it and they believe they have the power within themselves to control the changes here on earth.
Joe McMaster interviewed a man named Andy Knoll for the Television program called NOVA. (May 3, 2004.) Knoll. who is a professor of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, is also author of several books including: Life On a Young Planet; the First Three Billion Years. McMaster asked Knoll how. from his expert opinion, things in the universe went from “non-living” to “living,” from something that couldn’t reproduce itself, (like chemicals) to something that could and Knoll replied, saying... “It's pretty clear that all the organisms living today, even the simplest ones, are removed from some initial life form by four billion years or so, so one has to imagine that the first forms of life would have been much, much simpler than anything that we see around us. But they must have had that fundamental property of being able to grow and reproduce and be subject to Darwinian evolution.”
In other words, he said…"Imagine it this way... Darwinian evolution"
When asked more specifically in the same interview, “How does life form?” Knoll gave a more precise answer. He said, “The short answer is we don't really know how life originated on this planet. There have been a variety of experiments that tell us some possible roads, but we remain in substantial ignorance.”
In other words, (interpreted) he said, “We don’t know.”
He, like many others who claim to know, if they are honest, know that they do not really know. It's a supposition, perhaps even their preferred "religion."
Spiritually interpreted from a Christian perspective, equates to something along this kind of reasoning: 'We prefer to think ourselves wise and intellectual, virtuous beings who care about the earth and are basically good people. We do not believe we are sinners in need of salvation and will not believe in any story as pedantic as the Genesis story of creation; in fact we prefer to remain in ignorance and simply make up something about our origins on our own.'
What we have is amazingly intelligent creatures called humans, who persist in imagining their complex and esoterica origins through stories they fabricate themselves, instead of simply believing in something that is true. But the rest of humanity is no different. We put these self-proclaimed experts with great ideas into the limelight and look to them for wisdom and we want to be as smart as them. The next thing you know, in order to be wise, and reject the light of heaven and the simple truth of God, and just like everyone who is anyone of great wisdom in the world, we close our eyes and “imagine” the same thing as Darwin did.
And what did Darwin imagine? He imagines there was no God who created men on earth. Instead he found proof positive that the Origin of Species was not of a special creation by an entity called God, instead it was a process of evolution from another form of life already present uon the earth.
Towards the end of the interview, the evolutionist Professor Knoll made an allusion to the familiar Bible verse, 1 Cor 13:12, that says, “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” Knoll said, “If we try to summarize by just saying what, at the end of the day, do we know about the deep history of life on Earth, about its origin, about its formative stages that gave rise to the biology we see around us today... I think we have to admit that we're looking through a glass darkly here. We have some hints, we have a geologic record that tells us that life formed early on the planet, although our ability to interpret that in terms of specific types of microorganisms is still frustratingly limited…. We don't know how life started on this planet. We don't know exactly when it started, we don't know under what circumstances.”
In his expert opinion, the truth of agnostic-like ignorance is again faced squarely; “We don’t know.” The question is, do they want to know?
Knoll, perhaps without even realizing it, as told the truth of the matter. Evolution is really nothing more than a hypothetical supposition done by people who are in darkness. For whatever reason, usually pride and arrogance of heart, they insist and persist on remaining ignorant and refuse to acknowledge God and come into the "light" where God rules and reigns over humanity. But being ignorant is only like being comfortably numb for a little while. It's a little bit like being in what psychologists call "denial" where you and everyone around you feel and even think that you are well, when really, you are not. Exchanging the truth of God for a lie, they then worship and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. (Roman 1:25)
Jane Goodall wrote, A Reason to Hope, A Spiritual Journey because she believes she has in her life reconciled her Christian faith with her scientific knowledge. She wants to share that with the world through her books and through the work done at the Goodall Institute and the programs they are involved in in the world. Her Christian message however is not one of believing upon the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved, it is that "each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other. Together we must reestablish our connections with the natural world and with the Spiritual Power that is around us" (A Reason to Hope, A Spiritual Journey; p. 267).
Humanity and all life on earth appears to all scientists whether they believe in evolution or creation, to have had a beginning, and appears to have suddenly come into being from nothingness. If you are a thinking human being at all, you can see it's marvelousness. It doesn’t really matter what amount of time you distance yourself from the beginning of all things, it could be 6,000 years, 10,000 years or 4,000,000,000 years; it still adds up to a sort of strange and interesting miracle, one that will make you marvel, maybe even believe in God, and such a thing is something humans, not chimpanzees or other animals life forms, can speculate about, after all we humans are the only creatures that make machines or write books... even history books about their particular species' history.
Interestingly, if man (or in Jane's case, woman) has any conscious at all about humanity's propensity to do evil, he must succumb eventually to the dark, dark, realization that "Evolution is a blind process without purpose." (Jane Goodall quote) One must face the truth that in such spiritual darkness of heart and mind, man is without hope, nothing but an animal. Left without a single thought of God, ruled by mere animal instincts, man is bound to be just like the undomesticated animals he has supposedly come from, even like the lovable, smart, little furry chimpanzees who are by very nature, cannibalistic, profane, savage and sometimes heartlessly cruel.
Jane Goodall believes in some sort of extra-cosmic, "spiritual power," who she will even go so far as to say is the creator of the big bang. She just is not yet completely convinced it has been revealed by God in His one and only son, or that He goes strictly by the name of Jesus as she works so hard to save the world through political means, to make the world a better place for all creatures great and small. She even prays to the, "great Spiritual Power in which we live and move and have our being. " (http://www.godweb.org/prayergoodall.htm) She is not an evolutionist or an atheist.
Jane, who would perhaps consides herself to be Christian talks about spiritual things now in public and even writes books about hope. Highly praised as both a scientist and scholar in the world she amounst others was asked if she believed that "the universe has a purpose" by the John Templeton Foundation. Jane Goodall replied, "Certainly." and then added, "When I was a child, born into a Christian family, I accepted the reality of an unseen God without question. And now that I have lived almost three quarters of a century I still believe in a great spiritual power. I have described elsewhere the experience I had when I first visited Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. When, as I gazed at the great rose window, glowing in the morning sun, the air was suddenly filled with the glorious sound of an organ playing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. It filled me with joy, brought tears to my eyes. How could I believe that blind chance had led to that moment in time–the cathedral, the collective faith of those who had prayed and worshiped within, the genius of Bach, the emergence of a conscious mind that could, as mine did then, question the purpose of life on Earth. Was all the wonder and beauty simply the result of purposeless gyrations of bits of cosmic dust at the beginning of time? If not, then there must be some extra-cosmic power, the creator of the big bang. A purpose in the universe. Perhaps, one day, that purpose will be revealed."
John 12:38 " .... and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? "
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