Answers in Genesis claim new Australopithecus fossil is human!
Answers in Genesis claim a new Australopithecus specimen is human but deny it is Australopithecus with 100 year old quotemines!
Is Lucy a chimp ancestor?
A reader asks whether Australopithecines were actually the ancestors of another ape lineage, rather than our own.
Lucy the knuckle walker? Answers in Genesis v EvoAnth
This post also appeared on The Advanced Apes Many moons ago I stumbled across Answers in Genesis’s reconstruction of the “Lucy” specimen (who belonged to the species Australopithecus afarensis, an ancestor of modern humans that lived ~3.2 million years ago). They depicted our ancestor as a four legged knuckle walker, like a chimp. This is not a…
Answers in Genesis v EvoAnth #6:The conclusion
And so we arrive at the grand conclusion of Answers in Genesis response (parts 1, 2,3 4 & 5). It follows the standard creationist formula of “finish with a pat on the back of how right we are and some Bible verses showing how God is best” which you’ll recognise if you’ve ever read anything…
Answers in Genesis v EvoAnth #5: The hip
This is the fifth article in my series responding to Answers in Genesis critique of my post claiming that their creation museum wrongly portrays the famous Australopithecus afarensis specimen “Lucy” (AL 288-1) as a knuckle-walker. Posts 1, 2, 3 & 4 can be found by clicking on those links. I can’t really think of anything innovative to…
Answers in Genesis v EvoAnth #4: The wrist
Here were are, part 4 of my response to Answers in Genesis “rebuttal” of my post criticising their depiction of the famous Lucy specimen as a 4 legged knuckle walker (links to part 1, 2 and 3). Bored of these responses yet? Don’t worry, this will only be a short one given that AiG only…
Answers in Genesis v Evoanth #3: Lumbar lordosis
Piltdown superman has recently promoted Answers in Genesis’ 6,000 word diatribe against my post criticising their depiction of the famous Lucy specimen. This persuaded me to get my act together and finish my series of counter-responses, so here we are once again for part 3. For those of you just joining us, we’ve previously discussed…
Answers in Genesis v Evoanth #2: The foramen magnum
Welcome back to EvoAnth v. AiG round 2. If you cast your mind’s eye back a few weeks you’ll recall Answers in Genesis – famous purveyor of all things creationist – decided little ol’ me was worth a ~6,000 word rebuttal. My original response concentrated on the introduction of their piece since I’m rather lazy…
Australopithecus afarensis: tree climber
Australopithecus afarensis is a bipedal human ancestor which lived in Africa from 3.9 – 2.9 million years ago. It’s particularly notable for being the first hominin to have a human-like foot, having replaced the chimp-like opposable toe of its ancestor Ardipithecus ramidus (who lived 4.4 million years ago) with a forward-facing human-esque toe. Although Ar.…
Answers in Genesis vs EvoAnth #1
A few days ago I received about seventy-billion emails informing me people had started to comment on a post of mine from over the summer concerning Answers in Genesis’ knuckle walking Lucy exhibit. This flurry of interest was prompted by Answers in Genesis posting a “rebuttal” to that post, something which surprised me greatly. Not…
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