A Very Simple Question
A very simple request to Google's AI: "Please (save water, no need to be polite to AI) describe the differences between human and ape hands."
I expected to find some paper, some book, that would simply lay out the differences line upon line, chapter by chapter. Differences in size, motor sensitivity, etc.
A very simple request.
But could I find such a paper, such an article, such a book?
No!
Why? Because most of the world's biologists labour under the imprisoning paradigm of evolutionary theory. This means that they're committed to likeness and similarity rather than difference or uniqueness.
So similarities are played up - because the human hand comes from the ape hand, according to evolutionary dogma - while differences are played down - because humans cannot // are not unique or special.
So, this summer, during my holiday away, I'll be sifting through as many books and articles about the human hand I can find, to tabulate my own information, obscured as it will be by the evolutionary paradigm, and draw up my own list of unique features of the human hand.
I know I will discover many exclusive features a priori because while animals and mankind share the sixth day of creation, only mankind, not apehood, was made in the image of God.
I'll write up my findings.
The Danger of All Paradigms
A paradigm is a human perspective through which the world is interpreted.
On the one hand paradigms are inevitable because unlike God we are perspectival; we can only look at one tiny part of the world through tiny human eyes and brains.
On the other hand, paradigms skew data in one direction and end up blinding in another.
We find this happens to Bible students too. Charismatic students see some things in Scripture and miss out others; and it's exactly the same with reformed exegetes.
The very glasses intended to bring sight also blind us.
How questioning we must be of all human paradigms, secular and spiritual.
Night Café draw: The uniqueness and wonder o the human hand
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