Lucy: Do You Love Her?

The Creation Museum, one of the last bastions of truth in the secular United States (only 46% of Americans believe that the earth is 6,000 years old), has just refuted a century of research into human origins. With its highly controversial claim that Lucy "looked more like an ape than a human," the Museum and Answers in Genesis have truly given evolutionists cause to watch their backs. OH WAIT NO THAT'S REALLY STUPID. These people must have gotten their PhD's from a cereal box.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2012/05/28/lucy-exhibit-news-release

Here is a reconstruction of Lucy:

And here is the brain trust's version:

Would you look at that... I guess the scientific community ALREADY KNEW THAT IT LOOKED LIKE AN APE. Literally the only difference, according to the article, is that the creationists think that Lucy was primarily quadrupedal, whereas most scientists think that she was primarily bipedal.

“'Ultimately, with this excellent display, we want to show museum guests, once and for all, that this knuckle-walking creature needs to be discarded as a ‘missing link’ in human evolution,' Menton concluded."

I don't... what? Do they not understand how evolution works? If you look back far enough, we evolved from little organisms that were basically germs.

Evolution clearly cannot be mapped using physical resemblance as the primary criteria. So no, Menton, the possibility that Lucy walked on all fours does not discredit her candidacy as a human ancestor. Not that I'm conceding that this is even a possibility until I've read your paper. Oh, you don't have a peer reviewed paper?

To be fair, this article presents an argument, if not a convincing one, in favor of a reinterpretation of the Lucy skeleton. The conclusion is still bogus, but hey, at least they tried.

Another fun thing about the Creation Museum is that it has exhibits claiming that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. I understand that children love dinosaurs and that children are the museum's target audience, but dinosaurs are people too and they shouldn't be exploited.

DDYL