there’s a passage, two lengthy panels coloured yellow, in which Chick destroys the ape-to-man chart. At the god hates fundies addy, a link is given so the writer doesn’t have to debate the chart. However, the link he gives only discusses the Piltdown Man, most of which I already knew.
What about Jack’s attack on Lucy and Heidelberg and Peking and Nuw Guinea (which, I will confess, I’ve never heard of before) and all the rest? What is the scientific version of what he says?
Lucy (despite Hovind’s lie that the liar Jack Chick repeats) is not considered a chimp by anyone. She is classified as Homo Afarensis.
Nebraska Man was never accepted by anyone (except Creationists) as a forerunner of man. The man who tentatively identified the tooth as proto-human had already recognized it as a pig tooth in less than a year from its discovery. (This is one of the really Big Lies of Creationists.)
Piltdown man was a hoax and was never widely accepted as real by the anthropological community even before the hoax was revealed.
While the stooped posture that had earlier been attributed by a few people to Neandertal was probably based on the disease of one of the earliest specimens, the overall skeleton is radically different from human.
Cro-Magnon is a straw man in that he is generally considered to be a “modern” human by all except Creationists spreading lies.
Thanks for the updates. I had heard they were talking of sending her home, but I missed the story when they actually sent her.
The switch from Australopithecus is a small surprise. Again, I know they keep messing around with the categories, but the couple of (apparently old) references I have on Afarensis still put it in Homo.
