by Olufemi Oyedele

Created on: December 24, 2009   Last Updated: December 26, 2009

God is relevant in today's world. Science and technology, and indeed education generally, exist to complement the existence of God and not to counteract it. As a rational human being, one may find it illogical to conclude, at times, that God is in existence as widely claim by religionists due to what is happening in the world today. War, famine, earthquake, man cruelty against man, fraud, murder, oppression etc are acts that negate the omnipotency of God.

Science will explain the reasons for the biometry of foliage. Science has explanation for the transition of man, but not his translation, origin of man but not his destination. History, archaeology, sociology, politics and philosophy are also subjects that make us doubt the existence of God if we do not reason according to the doctrines.

God's existence is incontrovertible in that man cannot be the only thing without origin. Science wants us to believe that man originated from the sea and actually was an aquatic animal. It goes on to say that we have taken our present form due to adaptation. Charles Darwin and scores of scientists tried to convince the world that nature and not God should be acknowledged for the existence of the world. Religionists will not buy that idea. If we hailed from pisces, how was the fish that generated human beings made? I agree with the evolution of man from the time of Ardi to the present time. What I do not agree is that man was not made. Man was made by God in His image (Genesis 1: 27).

History of evolution had it that human evolution from the latest discovered skeletons of a human ancestor, Ardi – the earliest human ancestor to live, roamed forests in what is now Ethiopia in Africa about 1 million years before Lucy which was the earliest human ancestor discovered before Ardi. Ardi was only 1.2 metres (4 feet) tall, weighed 50 kiligram and somehow hirsute. She lived about 4.4 million years ago. The latest suggestions showed that rather than human evolving from an ancient creature looking like a chimp, chimp and human beings evolved from the same common ancestor but each developed and changed differently because of the environment they inadvertently found themselves according to anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy.

Ardi (formally Ardipithecus ramidis – meaning root of the ground ape) may not be the common ancestor, but according to Evolutionary Biologist, Professor Tim White, “it is the closest we have ever been able to come”. The lines that evolved into modern

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