[_ Old Earth _] Is Lucy the missing link?

[Dave Slayer]

Is Lucy the missing link?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)

Lucy (also given a second (Amharic) name: dinqineš, or “Dinkenesh,†meaning “You are beautiful†or "you are wonderful"[3]) is the common name of AL 288-1, the 40% complete skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis specimen discovered in 1974 at Hadar in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago[1]. The discovery of this hominin was significant as the skeleton shows evidence of small skull capacity akin to that of apes and of bipedal upright walk akin to that of humans, providing further evidence that bipedalism preceded increase in brain size in human evolution.[4][5]

 

[John]

No, Lucy was simply a 3 foot high ape. Evolutionists simply try to impose. There is in fact to missing links..the whole chain is missing because it never existed.

 

[Barbarian]

We are apes in the same sense that Lucy is an ape. But she had an upright posture, a much more sophisticated hand hand than other apes, and humanlike body proportions. There were a lot of human-like apes at the time, and it is only now beginning to be possible to figure out which of the available fossils are closest to the one that produced apes that are truly human.

 

[John]

Evolutionists have the most active imagination of all, you guys are able to deduce from a few bones that this ape walked upright and had human like hands (even though there was no hand bones there)

Amazing :rolling

 

[Dave Slayer]

Evolutionists have the most active imagination of all, you guys are able to deduce from a few bones that this ape walked upright and had human like hands (even though there was no hand bones there)

Amazing :rolling

Well they built Nebraska man from a tooth of a pig, so anything is possible!

 

[John]

There is far too many hoaxes within the realm of evolution.

 

[lordkalvan]

Evolutionists have the most active imagination of all, you guys are able to deduce from a few bones that this ape walked upright and had human like hands (even though there was no hand bones there)

Not amazing at all. Skeletal parts are diagnostic, unless of course you believe that forensic pathologists just make stuff up when they provide evidence in criminal cases on the discovery of partial human remains. The bones of the pelvic girdle are convincing evidence that Lucy walked upright.

 

[Barbarian]

Evolutionists have the most active imagination of all, you guys are able to deduce from a few bones that this ape walked upright and had human like hands (even though there was no hand bones there)

The angle of the femur at the hip is a tip-off. Bipedal hominids are slightly knock-kneed compared to other apes, which allows them to walk in an even pace unlike the rocking gait of chimps. And other Australopithecines have been found with hand bones:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/566187.stm

Interestingly, Australopithecines, although much more dextrous than most apes, lacked a specific muscle that allows one movement we are capable of doing.