I at least admire creationists to come up with some sort of backwards ass explanation in "the werst"
Here in a mostly muslim country, they just flat out reject evolution and beat you up if you speak your mind about it, not even bothering with explaining how bacteria gain resistance to whatever they are exposed in a matter of few generations
Interpretation of "Fossil Man"
To know the posture an animal walked in, you need only look at its skull's shape. This will tell you how it connects to its spine, and thus whether its posture was upright or not. We know that Australopithecus definitely stood upright.
While they aren't violent, they certainly are an annoying bunch.
>go to christian school
>science teacher is a YE
>did an experiment with several profile shots of fossil skulls, in which the creationist dichotomy of man/ape was tested
>4 out of the 20-24 iirc were labelled as ape or man, mainly at opposite ends of the spectrum (afarensis as an ape, neanderthal and human as man)
>some couldn't even decide between the two, putting them as either/both
>went on a tangent discussing how this demonstrate that there's no line between the two, and how we need to reassess our place in nature a la Linnaeus, Darwin and Huxley
>shut down for "spreading my evolutionary bias"
A more accurate of their "orchard" now (sediba still pending).
bro, that is actually a cool story and I mean that sincerely.
They have, they just claim that "biases" came into play with a distorted specimen, like AL 822-1 (pic related) or AL 444-2, though they rarely ever talk about Sts 5, which is actually complete.
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No.
I think they'd argue that the earlier skulls are just varieties of Homo sapiens. For some reason, they did not want to move the skulls to different positions to create a straight line.
More interestingly, they seem to show pretty clearly Chimps and Gorillas branching fro a common ancestor. They do not regard them as both the same species, so they should each be on their own "tree" in the Creation Forest.
I wonder where this image came from. It seems to have been intended for use by Creationists, but is poorly designed to illustrate their beliefs.
Or black flagging?