Lucy, You Got Some 'Splainin to Do - Chris Rupe

Since the 1970s, the famous "Lucy" skeleton and the species she is believed to represent have been promoted to the world as a credible evolutionary transitional species. Chris presents an alternative view that better aligns with the fossil evidence. Other fossils attributed to Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, are examined, including several misclassified human bones. Granting for the sake of argument that the dating methods are reliable, these true human fossils falsify the evolutionary ape-to-man model since they pre-date the reputed origin of the human genus Homo. Toward the end of the presentation, Chris shares a simpler biblical model that better explains the hominin fossil record.