From Sadiea:
Here are a few of my questions regarding evolution, I would welcome any answers anyone has, but please cite your source and please use scientific sources not John Doe’s opinion.
I’ll begin my line of questions with this post about the now famous “Lucy” since this is a blog that has been referred to me by a supporter of evolution as a reliable source:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/lucy.html
Where do the “sketches” come from? There are no complete fossils from what I could find on any websites to support the picture that most people have of the ape-men that evolutionists claim before us. In the words of “talk origins” in reference to the number of “skeletons” to support evolution:
“They are however mostly fragmentary, often consisting of single bones or isolated teeth. Complete skulls and skeletons are rare.”
If they are so rare where do we get the pictures from? How do they guess at what formed an entire body based on a few bones? I looked through several and found zero that had a skull (or even partial skull) to go along with a spine, and even one upper limb and lower limb. So there would be no evidence of being stooped over, no evidence of any “transitional” beings. There would also be no evidence of a hairy ape-man, bones can tell us some information about where muscles possibly attached as well as where tendons were, we can see based on bone wear-and-tear a general idea of osteoporosis or previous breaks/fractures but even that would largely be conjecture when the bones are considered to be millions of years old. Where does the hair come from?
Why are abnormalities not taken into account? There are genetic abnormalities that would account for someone being incredibly hairy such as generalized Hypertrichosis. This is an inherited disease characterized by thick hair growth over a person’s entire body. This is not an ape-man…simply an abnormality that can even be caused by certain medicines or androgen imbalance in women. Or how about dwarfism? Several articles refer to “short stature”, even stooped, there is a very simple explanation to being stooped, it’s called Kyphosis, it naturally occurs in much of the population due to age, immobility, osteoarthritis, or any number of common factors none of which promote evolution. Progeria is another interesting one: this is an abnormal aging, a 5 year old would have the body and diseases of an 80 year old. If the skull of a child with Progeria were found Scientists would incorrectly assume he was much older than he truly was based on his bone structure.
Why is Lucy said to have possibly been “tree-dwelling”? Was that based on where her fossil was found? Was it based on the shape it was found in? She has no hands, no feet, no head, no complete rib cage, in fact very few complete bones at all except her sacrum (I think…couldn’t tell for sure though). Was that tilted a certain way? That could also indicate breaks in her spine, could indicate trauma in the manner she died, it could indicate osteoarthritis of the spine, osteoporosis of the spine, SO many possibilities that are present today.
I am sure there are answers to these questions and I have many more related to each fossil but I’ll keep it short for now and see what responses come. There are plenty of scientists in this world on both sides of this argument smarter than I am who have argued with a lot more intellect, I’ll just start with the basics for now.
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