Photo of the Lucy exhibit at the Creation Museum
Lucy
Lucy, a partial Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, is a supposed human ancestor. It’s claimed she was bipedal due to human-like fossil footprints discovered 1000 miles away that are considered too early to be human. Yet the anatomical evidence is consistent with a fully ape classification for Lucy.
Lucy: Did She Walk Upright?
Most people don’t realize that the case for a human-like Lucy mainly depends on fossilized footprints. These impressions found at Laetoli in Tanzania are indistinguishable from human footprints you’d find on a beach. So, how do we know they weren’t packed down by Homo sapiens?
Lucy, a Knuckle-walking “abomination”?
Our Creation Museum exhibit features a holographic representation of Lucy’s fossilized bones in the context of the knuckle-walking ape that evidence suggests she was. A well-known blogger calls our Lucy “an abomination” and a “travesty.” He builds a detailed case intended to discredit the exhibit and demonstrate that Lucy was a transitional form between humans and ape-like ancestors.
Lucy, Swinging in the Trees?
To support their contention that ape-like ancestors became human because they learned to walk upright, evolutionists would like to bring Lucy down from the trees. But paleoanthropologists David Green and Zeresenay Alemseged have determined Lucy’s cousins retained their anatomical equipment for swinging through the forest and therefore likely did just that.
Lucy Topics
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Nov. 24, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Perhaps more than any other fossil, Lucy is presented as “exhibit A” for evolutionists in their attempt to show that humans evolved from an ape-like ancestor.
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In-Depth ArticleLucy, the Knuckle-Walking “Abomination”?Oct. 24, 2012 from Answers in Depth
A blog post critical of the Creation Museum’s “Lucy” exhibit shows reckless and unscientific reasoning.
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Aug. 20, 2008 from Answers Magazine
Before humans left Babel, it appears that apes had already spread over much of the Old World and had diversified.
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Farewell to “Lucy”April 18, 2007
The field of paleoanthropology and the evolution of man is more fraught with controversy than probably any other field of evolutionary studies.
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In-Depth ArticleLucy’s Child, “Selam,” from EthiopiaNov. 1, 2006 from Answers in Depth
The morphology of this new fossil discovery and the lack of transitional forms indicate that this fossil discovery has no relevance to human origins.
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Research PaperDid Lucy Walk Upright?Aug. 1, 2001, pp. 9–10
For over 20 years, Lucy or Australopithecus afarensis has been considered one of our first ‘ancestors’, mainly because it supposedly walked upright.
Articles About Lucy
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Nov. 24, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Perhaps more than any other fossil, Lucy is presented as “exhibit A” for evolutionists in their attempt to show that humans evolved from an ape-like ancestor.
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In-Depth ArticleLucy, the Knuckle-Walking “Abomination”?Oct. 24, 2012 from Answers in Depth
A blog post critical of the Creation Museum’s “Lucy” exhibit shows reckless and unscientific reasoning.
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Aug. 20, 2008 from Answers Magazine
Before humans left Babel, it appears that apes had already spread over much of the Old World and had diversified.
-
Farewell to “Lucy”April 18, 2007
The field of paleoanthropology and the evolution of man is more fraught with controversy than probably any other field of evolutionary studies.
-
In-Depth ArticleLucy’s Child, “Selam,” from EthiopiaNov. 1, 2006 from Answers in Depth
The morphology of this new fossil discovery and the lack of transitional forms indicate that this fossil discovery has no relevance to human origins.
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Research PaperDid Lucy Walk Upright?Aug. 1, 2001, pp. 9–10
For over 20 years, Lucy or Australopithecus afarensis has been considered one of our first ‘ancestors’, mainly because it supposedly walked upright.
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