How do you go from hundreds of bone fragments to 47 skeleton bones to a missing link that supposedly lived 3 million years ago named Lucy? Lucy fills the pages of our public school textbooks standing out as the leading icon for human evolution. However, is Lucy really a missing link to humans? Alternatively, is she just an extinct three and a half foot ape? In 1974, Donald Johanson found a small elbow bone in the Ethiopian desert. Looking around he found several other bones that looked like they could be from the same creature. He later returned to uncover hundreds of bone fragments scattered along a hillside. Later his teams piece together the hundreds of fragments into 47 skeletal bones. They believed that the creature was an adult female that weighed 55 pounds and stood three and a half feet tall, which is not anywhere close to an adult human. However, after gluing these hundreds of bone pieces into 47 different parts and creating models of what they think the creature looked like, evolutionists came up with some surprisingly human-like creatures. They did not even find any hands or feet with Lucy, and they certainly did not find any eye whites, which is a feature that only humans have and not Apes. They did this to make her look more human-like. In school textbooks across the country, authors present Lucy as a clear ape to human transition walking upright holding babies and gazing intelligently as she walks. This teaching plant seeds of doubts in the minds of Christian students, and leading them to believe that the author decorated the biblical creation account with far-fetched fantasies. However, is this really the truth? Is Lucy really our early human ancestor? Let us look at the evidence from head to toe. Starting with Lucy’s skull, we really do not have much to go on as leading paleontologist Dr. Leakey said. Lucy’s skull was so incomplete that most of it was imagination made of plaster, and thus making it impossible for anthropologists to draw any firm conclusion about her species.
When paleoanthropologists put Lucy’s actual skull bones together and they fill the empty parts in with what they imagined her skull looked like, she looked surprisingly similar to a modern bonobo. While we only have a few broken skull bones from Lucy, other skulls of Lucy’s kind show that their spines entered into their skulls at an angle just about like chimps showing that she likely walked on all fours and not on two legs like humans. Scientific analysis of the inner ear reveals that Lucy was a modern ape similar to Chimpanzees or Orangutans. Dr. Spoor professor of evolutionary anthropology has extensively studied the inner ears of various Apes and humans. After studying australopithecines, he revealed that the balancing system in their ears were the same as modern Apes enabling them to live in trees. Scientific analysis of the vertebrae that evolutionary paleoanthropologists believed to be part of Lucy for over 40 years show it was actually from an extinct relative of the baboon family. When Johansen first discovered Lucy’s pelvis he reported it was badly crushed with distortion and cracking. His team believed that it had been broken apart and then fused together during later fossilization, which caused it to be in an anatomically impossible position and to flare out like a chimps pelvis. Their solution was to use a buzz saw to cut it apart and piece it back together. After they reconstructed the pelvis, they noted it was a tricky job. However, after taking out the kink of the pelvis it all fit together perfectly like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. As a result, the angle of the hip looks nothing like a chimps, but a lot like humans. Even evolutionists and the famous human evolution Journal have problems with this reconstruction stating we think that the reconstruction overestimates the width of this pelvis area creating a very human-like sacral plane.
Since 1995, evolutionists have been battling out Lucy’s gender with some even suggesting that male names like Bruce Lee or Lucifer. This name would better fit the fossil. Scientific analysis show Lucy’s wrist is similar to modern apes. When looking at a cast of Lucy’s bones experts at George Washington University revealed that her wrist was stiff like a chimpanzees. This enabled Lucy’s wrists to lock in place for knuckle walking just like most Apes today. Another study noted measurements of the shape of wrist bones showed that Lucy’s type were knuckle walkers similar to gorillas. Even the curved fingers of Lucy’s kind were ape-like best suited for swinging in trees. Scientific analysis show that Lucy’s short little legs indicate she never was a true biped. Bill Jungers at the Stony-brook Institute in New York argued that Lucy’s legs were too short in relation to her arms for her species to have achieved a fully modern adaptation to bipedalism. In other words, evolution did not design her for walking. Other researchers have concluded the same thing. While scientists did not find a knee joint for Lucy, they found a different knee one year earlier. They used knee to try to prove that Lucy walked upright. Scientists found this other knee over 8,000 feet away from where they first found Lucy, and over 200 feet deeper in the ground. Johansson’s lead team members said this knee was human not ape.
Recently a team of scientists from the University of Texas conducted 38,000 scans of Lucy’s bones after researching the different breaks and fractures, they concluded that she died while falling over 40 feet out of a tree while she was awake even trying to break her fall. Lucy, a 3 feet 6 inch 55 pound ape, that supposedly walked on two feet like a human died after falling 40 feet out of a tree. Lucy is made of hundreds of bone fragments, and she is glued together to make 47 parts, and even accidentally including a vertebrae from a different species. Did we really know what she was? Her skull in her ears walking wrist curved fingers and short legs revealed that she was definitely an ape. However, that is not what evolutionists want us to believe. Evolutionists show Lucy with human expressions, eye whites, which no apes have, and walking upright. They want us to think she was on her way to becoming human. They want us to believe that there is hundreds of Lucy’s kind buried in the Earth. According to Dr. Johanson, there are 400 australopithecines specimens. However, what he does not say is that he is talking about 400 bone specimens not individuals, 35 percent of these specimens are just teeth, and fewer than a dozen are skulls all of which have been pieced together using numerous broken pieces. If human evolution really happened over millions of years, we should find more primeval bones and early fossils showing the gradual a transformation from apes into humans. With over seven billion humans alive today, why do we not see the ground filled with transitioning apes evolving into humans. Thus, what was Lucy? The answer is straightforward. Lucy and other Australopithecines are extinct apes just like many other ape species that have gone extinct. She walked on all fours ate the foods that apes eat and lived among other animals that are similar to those that live around apes today.
Finally, the truth is God created land animals on the sixth day of creation right before he created men to rule over them. God created us in the image of God and not in the image of Apes. God made us out of the dust of the Earth and He had given us the responsibility of ruling over all of His creation. This is why we put apes in the zoo and not humans. We are vastly different from Apes in many ways. Our brains however stand out is the biggest distinction being nearly three times larger than it should be based on our lineup with similarly sized Apes. God wired our brains completely differently than Apes in many ways. God wired humans with the intellect to rule the Earth. We sing worship have ceremonies pray educate ourselves and many other things that reflect the fact that we are spiritual beings and not animals. Following the biblical genealogies, in Genesis chapter 5 and 11, leads us back to the supernatural creation of Adam on the Sixth Day of Creation history around 5554 BCE. Later about 3,298 BCE God destroyed the world with a flood. Around 2,850 BCE, humans were scattered around the world from the Tower of Babel. That is primarily why we have many diffe
PRIMARY SOURCES: Genesis Apologetics Videos on Lucy (AKA: Australopethicus Aferensis)