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.