![]() But I could get them to make a conical-shaped rib cage, like what you see in apes. The human rib cage is barrel shaped, and I just couldn’t get Lucy’s ribs to fit this kind of shape. But the shape of the rib cage itself was the biggest surprise of all. I noticed that the ribs were more round in cross-section, more like what you see in apes. Everyone had talked about Lucy as being very modern, very human, so I was surprised by what I saw. When I started to put the skeleton together, I expected it to look human. As paleontologist Peter Schmid at the Anthropological Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, stated: Lucy’s rib cage was conical-shaped (as found in apes), while humans have a barrel-shaped rib cage. Her brain case (415 cm) was not enlarged and was the same size as the common chimpanzee. Recently, it was reported that Lucy “had an exceptionally powerful upper body, thanks to spending a lot of time climbing trees.” 12 This suggests that her ancestors walked on their knuckles. 10 (People have no curvature in these bones.) In addition, Lucy had a locking hand joint, while people are designed with a non-locking hand joint.Ī chance discovery made by looking at a cast of the bones of “Lucy,” the most famous fossil of Australopithecus afarensis, shows her wrist is stiff, like a chimpanzee’s, Brian Richmond and David Strait of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., reported. Louis, Missouri, zoo and the natural history museums of New York and London as having human feet and hands, she in reality had short, curved toe and finger bones. Lucy’s shoulder blade was “virtually identical to that of a great ape and had a probability less than 0.001 of coming from the population represented by our modern human sample.” 9ĭespite the displays of Lucy at the St. Other fossil fragments fail to fit the evolutionary picture. I had to convince Tom, whose first reaction was that it was a monkey’s. This time I knew at once I was looking at a hominid elbow. His bias is revealed by his interpretation of a single arm bone he discovered in the sand. In spite of evidence “pointing back” to apes, Johanson was determined to see Lucy as a human ancestor. Her jaw was the wrong shape….I interpreted other things in her dentition as primitive also, as pointing away from the human condition and back in the direction of apes….The larger jaws had some of those same primitive features. Johanson agreed Lucy’s mandible (jaw) was V-shaped or ape-like, nothing like that of a human, who has a U-shaped mandible. These displays show Lucy with an intelligent stare and skin color and hair added by an evolutionary artist who never saw her when she was alive and must guess the majority of her reconstructed features. Visitors to natural history museums, however, see a reconstructed creature behind the glass with a posture deceptively erect and humanlike. Her bones are what would be expected on the basis of creation: “Lucy’s fossil remains match up remarkably well with the bones of a pygmy chimp.” 5Īnatomical evidence shows this creature was ape-like with a nonhuman gait. Whatever fragments are missing must be filled in with plaster of Paris and imagination. The pieces fit where the biased researcher would like them to go. Not only do these bone pieces have no dates on them, but no one can be absolutely sure they are even from the same individual. Hence it is not surprising that the reconstructions by Lovejoy and Schmid show marked differences. The sacrum and the auricular region of the ilium are shattered into numerous small fragments, such that the original form is difficult to elucidate. For example, two evolutionists stated in regard to Lucy: To begin with, many people are not aware of the subjectivity that is involved with piecing together shattered fossil remains. How are creationists to respond to this compelling creature that supposedly links us to non-human ancestors millions of years ago? Lucy is dated by evolutionists to be 3.75 to 3 million years old, and evolutionists have stated her line “probably evolved directly from anamensis.” 2 1 Several hundred pieces of fossilized bone were discovered in east Africa by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray in 1974. Perhaps the premier and most popular purported evolutionary relative of man is Australopithecus afarensis, or southern ape of Afar-better known as Lucy. Although a parade of supposed transitions are displayed in every conceivable outlet, non-Darwinists maintain that the links between people and our alleged ape-like ancestors are- missing. Human evolution has consistently been shown to be without scientific or biblical merit.
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