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Honoring the 41st Anniversary of the Discovery of “Lucy,” Google Offers a Misleading Doodle
As a monument to human evolution, clarifying the mystery of our origins, Lucy falls short.
Save Your Brain: Skip Luc Besson’s Fantastical Lucy
It’s a complete myth that humans use only 10 percent of our brains. That’s just one problem with this blockbuster hit.
My Pilgrimage to Lucy’s Holy Relics Fails to Inspire Faith in Darwinism
A couple weeks ago, the Seattle Times printed an article titled, “Few lining up to see famous fossil at Pacific Science Center,” noting the poor public attendance of the exhibit showing the bones of the famous hominid fossil “Lucy” here in Seattle. Having studied about Lucy and other fossils supposedly documenting human evolution for many years, I was already planning on attending the exhibit. The whole experience seeing Lucy was enlightening, though probably not in the way its creators intended. In short, I left the exhibit struck by the paucity of actual hard evidence for human evolution from ape-like species, and the amount of subjective, contradictory interpretation that goes into fossil hominid reconstructions. “Lucy” was discovered by paleoanthropologist Donald Johansen Read More ›
Fossil Friday: Stone Huts, Homo habilis, and Gutsick Gibbon
A PhD student of biological anthropology named Erika runs one of the more popular anti-creationist YouTube channels under her pseudonym Gutsick Gibbon.
Top Five Questions on the Origin of Language — Answered!
We aren’t even sure which is the world’s oldest spoken language, though Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese have impressively long histories.