How should the fossil evidense Lucy be portrayed in science class?

Question

Star evidense for the ape to man evolution, Australopithicus Aforensus, is touted on the discovery channel and learning channels, NOVA and many other shows as great evidense
of a walking monkey yet the original fossil had neither hands nor feet

The feet found of similar fossil of the same species are curved feet and hands, a tree dweller. The pelivis a tree balancing oriented pelvis and oddest of all a pair of totally human footprints in the Laetoli footprints nearby where an adult strides for about 75 feet and a diminutive unknown creature matches the steps stride for stride exactly parrallel as if a child is walking sie by side with the parent matching step for step as only a humanchild would
Ironically the Laetoli footprints were dated with Argon Potassium dating in volcanic ash and we now know vocanic rock is chuck full of argon and meaningless

Is Lucy the star witness for or against ape to man evolution and are evolutionist looking at Lucy with rose colored glasses

As I understand it, in most states teachers would not be allowed to give both strengths and weaknesses of macro evolutionary evidense and so the choice is never pressentied in a non-lopsided way and skewed toward naturalism

Answer 1

That's not all!


Human Evolution: What is it?
Human evolution is not supported by the fossil evidence. Much of the alleged evidence that filled text books over the last 50 years has now been reclassified or rejected altogether. The missing links are still missing.

Human Evolution: The Legacy of the Fossil Evidence
Human evolution has many issues, including the realities of genetics, biochemistry, design theory, irreducible complexity, DNA structure, and information systems. However, the reality of the human fossil record alone is enough to reject the theory of human evolution all together. Here are just a few of the major problems with the alleged fossil record of the past century:

Ramapithecus was widely recognized as a direct ancestor of humans. It is now established that he was merely an extinct type of orangutan.

Piltdown man was hyped as the missing link in publications for over 40 years. He was a fraud based on a human skull cap and an orangutan's jaw.

Nebraska man was a fraud based on a single tooth of a rare type of pig.

Java man was based on sketchy evidence of a femur, skull cap and three teeth found within a wide area over a one year period. It turns out the bones were found in an area of human remains, and now the femur is considered human and the skull cap from a large ape.

Neandertal man was traditionally depicted as a stooped ape-man. It is now accepted that the alleged posture was due to disease and that Neandertal is just a variation of the human kind.

Human Evolution: The Current Tree
Human evolution has its currently fashionable specimens that lead from small ape-like creatures to Homo sapiens. These are examples of the most recent alleged links:

Australopithecus afarensis, or "Lucy," has been considered a missing link for years. However, studies of the inner ear, skulls and bones have shown that she was merely a pygmy chimpanzee that walked a bit more upright than some other apes. She was not on her way to becoming human.

Homo erectus has been found throughout the world. He is smaller than the average human of today, with a proportionately smaller head and brain cavity. However, the brain size is within the range of people today and studies of the middle ear have shown that he was just like current Homo sapiens. Remains are found throughout the world in the same proximity to remains of ordinary humans, suggesting coexistence. Australopithecus africanus and Peking man were presented as ape-men missing links for years, but are now both considered Homo erectus.
Homo habilis is now generally considered to be comprised of pieces of various other types of creatures, such as Australopithecus and Homo erectus, and is not generally viewed as a valid classification.

Human Evolution: The Most Recent Find
In July 2002, anthropologists announced the discovery of a skull in Chad with "an unusual mixture of primitive and humanlike features." The find was dubbed "Toumai" (the name give to children in Chad born close to the dry season) and was immediately hailed as "the earliest member of the human family found so far." By October 2002, a number of scientists went on record to criticize the premature claim -- declaring that the discovery is merely the fossil of an ape.

Human Evolution: The Theory Has No Support in the Fossil Record

Human evolution is a theory in denial. With all of this fossil evidence (or lack thereof) it becomes increasingly clear to an earnest seeker that human evolution did not happen at all.

Answer 2

and the creationist are looking for faults in the evidence, it is all a matter of perspective, i say we give children the information we have and let them decide