Because many of my friends know that I believe in a young earth, they often bring to me new articles on supposed evidence for an old earth. It should not be long then that I'm sent the most recent (90 million year old) snake fossil find.
So I wanted to give you the modus operandi of evolutionary teaching via news sources in this ongoing, full scale assault on creationism in their hopes to hopefully slow the rapidly spreading cracks in the facade of evolution.
Step 1: Begin with a forceful headline
Knowing that many readers have a short attention span, this is a common tactic used, something like:
"Ethiopian fossils link humans to 4.4 million-year-old apelike creatures, researchers say."
Step 2: Lead with a strong opening statement:
"Fossil hunters scouring Ethiopia's harsh and rocky Afar desert have uncovered fresh evidence linking our human ancestors of 3.5 million years ago with more primitive apelike forebears who lived a million years earlier and had not yet emerged from woodland habitats.
Step 3: Bury ambiguous rationale in the last paragraph.
"The major noticeable difference between the phases of man can be seen in Australopithecus' bigger chewing teeth to eat harder food, he said."
So, following this logic, my wife has bigger teeth than mine is evidence that she is further along than I on the evolutionary chain.
Once again, I've been proven correct: This is further evidence that I definitely married up. Thank God Random Chance Processes for Storybook Science!