Lucy Walked Upright

[Minimalist]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12412662

New fossil evidence seems to confirm that a key ancestor of ours could walk upright consistently - one of the major advances in human evolution.

The evidence comes in the form of a 3.2 million-year-old bone that was found at Hadar, Ethiopia.

Its shape indicates the diminutive, human-like species Australopithecus afarensis had arches in its feet.

Fundies everywhere will be pissing and moaning...as usual.

[Anomalocaris]

Of course they would moan. The discovery about Lucy's kin shows there is now yet one more species that sits above fundamentalists in the totem pole of human evolution.

[OnlyNatural]

There is so much evidence for the evolution of our own species (not to mention every other species), I don't know how anyone can continue to be a creationist without being profoundly retarded.

And we are not all that special or successful when in comes to survival. Anatomically-modern humans have been around for about 200,000 years. Behaviorally-modern humans have been around for maybe 50,000 years, and who knows how long we've got left. Australopithecines were around for a whopping 2 million years, I doubt we can aspire to such longevity.

[Minimalist]

I don't know how anyone can continue to be a creationist without being profoundly retarded.

You answered your own question.

[Justtristo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12412662

New fossil evidence seems to confirm that a key ancestor of ours could walk upright consistently - one of the major advances in human evolution.

The evidence comes in the form of a 3.2 million-year-old bone that was found at Hadar, Ethiopia.

Its shape indicates the diminutive, human-like species Australopithecus afarensis had arches in its feet.

Fundies everywhere will be pissing and moaning...as usual.

Nah the Fundies will just dismiss Australopithecus afarensis as just an bipedal savannah dwelling chimp. You forget they often live in another universe mentally as opposed to just another planet.

[HeyItsZeus]

No amount of evidence will change someone that does not want to think outside of their little box.

[Minimalist]

Nah the Fundies will just dismiss Australopithecus afarensis as just an bipedal savannah dwelling chimp.

....and claim it was on the fucking ark!

[Anomalocaris]

If there was a benevolent creator, he would never have missed the chance afforded by the flood to purge humanity of the fundamentalist genetic mutation. The fact there are fundamentalist around proves there was never a flood brought about by a benevolent god, hence the existence of fundamentalists proves the bible is a sack of shit.