Lucy's Secret (Reflection#4)

The story of Lucy does not affect my beliefs at all because I believe in evolution. I also believe in God. When I was a little boy, my parents took me to a catholic church because they were catholic, and they wanted me to be catholic. In church, I studied the Bible and I learned about the story of Adam and Eve. Who does not know this popular story that talks about the creation of men and women? There was a time when this story was real to me, when I actually believed that men and women from today were direct descendents of this first couple. However, later on, I went to school and I was able to study science, biology, and history. There, another truth about the origins of men was revealed to me. I learned that man had gone through an evolutionary process from primate species to what we are now. Then, this new truth substituted what I had believed until that moment about the story of human kind's origins. This did not mean that I stopped believing in God, and it did not affect my religious believes. I just saw the truth from a new perspective, and the story of Adam and Eve came to be like a fairy tale or a story for children. Do not get me wrong; I respect everyone else's beliefs. If someone believes in Adam and Eve, I dont criticize them. I am just stating my beliefs and my learning process about human kind's beginning. The new truth that talked about evolution was superior to the story of Adam and Eve because excavated bones were the scientific evidence and irrefutable proof that human had evolved. People say that God works in misterious ways, and I still think He created us, but I think it was not simple just by taking dust and breathing life into it. Maybe, and I am saying maybe because nobody has the absolute truth, God created us as primates first and then let us be and transform through a process that took millions of years and not just one day. A few days ago my understanding of human beings took a turn which made me see that there is always more to learn and investigate. I read that modern human beings had a common ancestor that left Africa to populate the rest of the world. I also learned that modern man is not the result of a straight evolutionary line, but there were several species of hominids like the branches of a tree, and only a prevailing specie was able to adapt and survive to nowadays unlike the other species that did not make it. I still have to keep reading about these new information about evolution to form my own hypothesis, but the truth is out there, and we cannot close our eyes to the evidence.