No more love for Lucy? (33 years of evolutionary propoganda up in smoke)

Journal of Creation ^ | Ryan Jaroncyk

[GodGunsGuts]

No more love for Lucy?

Ryan Jaroncyk

For over the last 30 years, the supposedly 3 . 2 Ma old Australopithecus afarensis specimen known as ‘Lucy’ has been boldly proclaimed as the ancestor of all humanity in magazines, television shows, books, newspapers and museums. However, Tel Aviv University anthropologists have published a study casting serious doubt on Lucy’s role as mankind’s ape ancestor.1 Based on a comparative analysis of jaw bones in living and extinct primates, researchers concluded that Lucy and members of her kind should be ‘placed as the beginning of the branch that evolved in parallel to ours.’ In other words, Lucy should no longer be considered to be our direct ancestor. Lucy’s demise falsifies 33 years of evolutionary hyperbole and propaganda...

[GodGunsGuts]

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Only Little Ricky and his descendants can claim Lucy as a direct ancestor.

[a fool in paradise]

If we are all descended from her, than I want my ancestor’s bones back.

[FormerRep]

(Reading too much into too little and Consider the Source Alerts)

This is mere fodder for the people who have no idea what they are discussing but are dying to pull out the Darwin boogey man.

[Malesherbes]

Oh, too bad. It was such a politically correct notion.

[allmendream]

Indeed. The presence of australopithocine, a fully bipedal primate with the brain the size of a chimp, is itself a powerful testament to the evolution of primates and the change from knuckle walking to bipedalism. It really doesn’t matter one bit if Lucy is a human ancestor or the start of a branch that died out for the evidence of Australopithocine to show that apes were changing and evolving at a time when there were no human beings.

[Vaquero]

another bogus, blinders on, report by ignoramuses bent on discrediting scientific fact by artificially narrowing, scientifically accepted as broad, facts.

Please if you want to go after bogus science, go after the fraud of anthropomorphic climate change.

[Cedric]

Piltdown man

Java man

Nebraska man

Lucy

All have something in common.

[Vaquero]

BINGO!

[xcamel]

Exactly.

[KevinDavis]

Also give Christians a bad name with stuff like this..

[zeestephen]

The article states:

“.....[There is no] clear link between ancient apes and human beings.”

Hey, Doc, let me introduce you to some of my neighbors.

[Cedric]

go after the fraud of anthropomorphic climate change Pikers, compared to evos.

[Codeflier]

This does nothing to disprove evolution.

[Cedric]

go after the fraud of anthropomorphic climate change

Pikers, compared to evos.

[massgopguy]

If we decended from the apes, why are there still apes?

[dfwgator]

Lucy, you have some ‘splainin’ to do.

[FreedomProtector]

LOL. Good humor is rooted in truth. Thanks for posting.

[stormer]

So let me get this straight. Creationists don't believe in evolution but they state that Lucy is from a different evolutionary line than modern man? Hmmm. FWIW, she's being displayed in Seattle and I saw her last week. Most of the presentation consists of Ethiopian religious history and artifacts, but she's the climax display. For me, it was a moving experience.

[Deb]

I have the “Lucy” book. Wonder how much I could get for it on EBAY?

[Cedric]

How so, considering that Christ spoke against it?

[pabianice]

The author fails to note that he is anti-evolution theory. That matters.

[allmendream]

If Americans descended from Europeans, why are there still Europeans?

[GodGunsGuts]

The list is getting pretty long, isn’t it!

[Vaquero]

Pikers, compared to evos.

Not really the difference is that we and the rest of the planet ARE the result of natural selection or whatever you want to call it

and Global warming is just plain bull, fortified by huge grants for those who would try to prove it.

[Red Badger]

Don’t forget Lucy Jr.!...........................

[Cedric]

You got turned on by an arthritic hominid?

[tpanther]

Also give Christians a bad name with stuff like this...

That's a really old debunked strawman, but even so:

However, Tel Aviv University anthropologists have published a study casting serious doubt on Lucy’s role as mankind’s ape ancestor...

[Red Badger]

All have something in common.

They ALL voted for The Zero in the last election?..............

[xcamel]

Keeping in mind these “posts” of “facts” are simply meant to incite and cause flame wars, nothing more.

FR’s version of Art Bell and George Noory

[Red Badger]

anthropomorphic climate change?.............That’s a new one on me!..............

[GodGunsGuts]

You never know what the Temple of Darwin might pay to make their failure go away ;o)

[varmintman]

Neither "Lucy" nor any other ape or hominid is related to us via any process resembling evolution. The neanderthal has been ruled out as a plausible human ancestor precisely because the genetic gulf is too wide and the gulf between us and all other hominids other than the neanderthal is wider.

"Lucy" is said to be a human ancestor because human or near human footprints were found near her remains and are assumed to be 3M years old because of that fact, i.e. via circular reasoning. The truth of the matter is that the human footprints belonged to a human considerably less than 3M years ago and "Lucy" in all likelihood was that human's pet monkey.

Evolution is garbage science and as garbage science goes a spectacularly evil and dangerous variety, with two world wars and something like 200M - 300M dead bodies lying around to its credit. It's way past time evolutionism was gotten rid of.

[GodGunsGuts]

My pleasure :o)

[April Lexington]

a fully bipedal primate with the brain the size of a chimp

Excuse me for intervening in this debate, but, I can assure you that the above noted Democrats are alive and well in my neck of the woods!

[Vaquero]

Christ spoke against it

yes I remember it well...Sermon on the mount I believe.

” God bless the Intelligent Designers, for they shall inherit the superstitious”

pass the loaves and fishes

[GodGunsGuts]

==The author fails to note that he is anti-evolution theory. That matters.

He writes for the Journal of Creation. Need he say more?

[Norman Bates]

What do they have in common?

[Cedric]

we and the rest of the planet ARE the result of natural selection

Capitalization does not suffice as proof.

[allmendream]

Liberals have brains fully within the human SIZE range, it is just that they use it less than a hippie uses deodorant.

[Oldpuppymax]

So Lucy was a sort of phony ape. Does that mean we should change her name to Michelle?

[Deb]

They’ll never go away, something about the cocktail parties and hangin’ with the cool kids.

[job]

Because they are both homo sapiens.

Monkey is Monkey, Human is Human.

[GodGunsGuts]

==Please if you want to go after bogus science, go after the fraud of anthropomorphic climate change.

That’s already being handled by Tolerancesucksrocks et al.

[Norman Bates]

If we evolved from apes why are apes still here? If we did and apes are still here where are the human-ape transition creatures?

[xcamel]

You better get your sources out, because Neanderthal genes are found in about 70% of the living population of Europe today.

Your post is complete hogwash.

[Norman Bates]

I want to know that too.

[newcats]

Because, you are wrong to say we descended from apes. No reputable scientist or researcher has ever said that.
The point is that there was a common ancestor.
Please do some research and get your facts straight.

[xcamel]

creationist: a fully bipedal primate with the brain the size of a pea