Lucy's Fall From Science

Welcome to today's webinar. Today, we're going to be taking a look at Lucy, one of the leading icons of human evolution. Lucy is widely used in school textbooks for promoting the idea that humans evolved from ape-like creatures beginning millions of years.

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She's also predominantly displayed in museums across the country, oftentimes with exaggerated human characteristics that are not based on her actual fossils. Today, we'll take a critical review of Lucy and debunk the idea that she's our ancestor.

And we'll do this using research that's been conducted mostly by evolutionists and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Here's a short introduction to our website, genesisapologetics .com.

Our website provides an easy way for parents, youth pastors, and students to look up their public school textbook to reveal the evolutionary content that's being taught in each. In California, for example, evolutionary theory is taught as fact in sixth grade world history, seventh grade life science, and 10th grade biology.

After selecting the textbook used by your school, clickable links and videos guide you towards easy rebuttals for the evolutionary teaching based on both scientific and biblical grounds. Here's a short review of some of our publications.

Our creation versus evolution book was first released a few years ago and focuses mainly on the evolutionary topics that are included in most high school biology textbooks. In 2015, our debunking human evolution book was published, which covers many of the topics we'll be discussing in today's webinar.

Our most recent project is the debunking evolution series, which is offered free online at debunkevolution .com, or it can be ordered from our website. This series debunks the central pillars of evolution taught in most of today's classrooms and is currently also being sold by Answers in Genesis, the leading creation ministry in the US.

Genesis Creation, Biblical Authority, and the Six-Day Week

First, it's important to note that Christians hold different views on the creation account described in the book of Genesis. Our ministry holds to the literal historical position, taking the account as a plainly stated historical account of how God created our world and everything in it.

This position holds that the six days described in the first chapter of Genesis are days just like we know them now, and that the creation week occurred about 6 ,000 years ago based on the interlinking genealogies in Genesis that go right back to Adam.

This position is also held by leading creation ministries such as Creation Ministries International, Answers in Genesis, the Institute for Creation Research, and Creation Today. The vast majorities of private Christian schools and homeschoolers also hold to this position.

By the way of overview, this webinar will cover the biblical creation account of humans, the significance that Lucy has in each person's worldview, how evolutionists work hard to promote the idea of human evolution, and why this topic is important to debunk.

Also, we're currently producing an in-depth documentary on Lucy that'll explain much more about her discovery, show the actual bones uncovered, and make the case why she isn't an evolutionary transition.

Please send us an email letting us know you'd like a copy, and we'll send it to you free of charge. That email is staff at genesisapologetics .com. And at the end of the seminar, we'll provide you with a link to request a free student guide and DVD.

To start out, it's important to admit that Christians believe in miracles. Moses parting the Red Sea, Jesus and Peter walking on water, Jesus multiplying the fish and bread, and Jesus' resurrection. These are miracles, just like in Genesis, where God spoke creation into existence.

1 Peter 1 .25 is clear that God's word will last forever, and it's by God's word that we can know these things to be true. This authority and belief in God's word is just as central to the gospel message as it is to understanding other events described in God's word, like the creation account.

Here are several verses that describe God's word to be consistently true, unchanging, perfect, permanent, and even honored by God above his own name. It's with this degree of reverence that we approach the scriptures today and explore the biblical creation account, and contrast that with secular ideas of how humans evolved.

To compare and contrast the biblical and secular ideas about human origins, we'll start by looking at the who, what, when, where, and why. Genesis 1 .26 through 28. Then God said, let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his own image.

In the image of God, he created them. Male and female, he created them. Then God blessed them and said to them, be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

You know, these verses in the first chapter of Genesis describe our very beginnings. While the Bible's expressly clear that there's one God, Genesis says, let us create man in our own image. God the Father is speaking to the Trinity here.

God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, as well as the host of heaven and angels when he says, let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. Evidence of this is shown by the triune nature of man, which we'll take a look at shortly.

God created humans as the last, final event of his creative works on the sixth day of creation and commanded us to take dominion and govern the earth and all that lives within it. Note that humans were made as the grand finale of God's creation, put here immediately after the animal kingdom was created and asked by God himself to rule over it and take dominion.

An acronym we use when teaching the human creation account in Genesis is said, S, spirit was breathed into us, A, above the animals, I, image of God, and D, dominion. God created us out of the dust of the earth, then he breathed his spirit into us, created us above the animal kingdom in his image, and then gave us the dominion charge to rule over all of creation.

One of the best ways to interpret scripture is by using other scripture passages. In other words, letting scripture interpret scripture. When Genesis 1 .26 states, let us make man in our image and in our likeness, it's clear that we are made much differently than the animals.

God did not say this about any of his other creative works, but only when creating humans. And the Bible's clear in several places that we were made as spirit, our eternal being, soul, our mind, will, and emotions, and our physical bodies.

Mark 10 .6, but at the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. So Jesus himself was clear on this truth as well, stating that humans were created at the very beginning of creation, not thousands or millions of years after God began creation.

God himself wrote the 10 commandments, and in the fourth commandment, God makes it clear that he did this in six 24-hour days. These days don't represent long periods of time, but rather the creation week gives us the basis for the same week we have today.

For in six days, the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. The Lord was being quite comprehensive here, stating that he created the heavens, earth, sea, and everything in them in six days.

There's certainly not too many other ways to interpret this. God wants us to believe this just as he wrote it. Okay, now that we've covered that the creation week was a literal week consisting of six days, we can look at when the Bible places that week in world history.

Adam was the first man created, and the Bible records how long he lived before having a son, how long he lived afterwards, and how long he lived overall. This three-step age description is provided not only for Adam, but for 33 other patriarchs in the first 11 chapters of Genesis.

Looking at just the first 10 that are listed in Genesis 5, we can simply just add up the years to arrive at the total number of years before the worldwide flood of Noah's time, about 1 ,656 years after creation.

By adding up the genealogies provided in the remaining part of chapter five and chapters 10 and 11, we find that these interlinking and overlapping genealogies lead to about 2 ,000 years from Adam to Abraham, and then it's 2 ,000 years from Abraham to Christ, and about 2 ,000 years from Christ to today.

Even if there are gaps in these genealogies, there's certainly not enough room for inserting thousands or millions of years between today and the creation of Adam on the sixth day of creation week. The same historic view of the Old Testament, including the book of Genesis, was apparently also held by Jesus.

In fact, the New Testament records a total of 42 times where Jesus refers back to the Old Testament, and in each of these, the Old Testament's treated historically with real events and people. Specifically, Jesus referred to Adam and Eve as real historical people, created at the very beginning of creation.

Jesus also acknowledged that Cain and Abel, Noah and the great flood, Sodom and Gomorrah were also real, and acknowledged that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, known as the Pentateuch, which is included in the book of Genesis.

Here's a chart showing the lifespans of the first 22 patriarchs listed in the Bible. Because the Bible lists how old the patriarchs were when they had sons, who are also listed in the genealogies, and how long they lived, these genealogies are both overlapping and interlinking.

This graph shows the lifespan of the first 10 patriarchs listed in Genesis. Well, except for Enoch, who was taken to heaven by God before natural death. Note that the average lifespan was 912 years old.

These patriarchs were all born in an old world which was destroyed by the flood. Not only did people live longer in this old world, but it was also inhabited by dinosaurs and plant life that was much different than those we have on the planet today.

The fossil record holds some of the evidence of Noah's flood that was destroyed in this old world. And this fossil record includes massive sauropod dinosaurs with nasal passages less than twice the size of horses, but were 20 times larger that could not breathe in today's world.

Giant pterosaurs with 50 foot wingspans that could not fly in today's atmosphere, and giant plants that are nowhere on the planet today. The climate changes that were caused by the flood, along with the genetic entropy of the human gene pool, led to people having much shorter lifespans, which we'll look at next.

This chart shows the rapid, systematic decline of lifespans recorded in the Bible that occurred after the flood. The amazing thing about these lifespans is that they fit a nearly perfect mathematical model.

In fact, a curved downward slope explains about 96 of the data points. Wow, this is incredible because the biblical manuscripts were recorded, compiled, and copied by different authors who spanned different lifetimes.

Mapping such historical data into such a perfectly sloping curve like this would have been next to impossible. So either these lifespans are historical, or they're fabricated by multiple authors who willingly conspired over several generations.

In reality, these data fit what biologists recognize as a biological decay curve. This indicates that the Genesis lifespans are real, recorded history. But is there any scientific support for humans originating just 6 ,000 years ago?

Actually, there is. Here's a study published by the secular journal Nature Genetics that revealed that the empirical observed mutation rates of mitochondrial DNA points back to the first woman emerging only 6 ,500 years ago.

Here's another study reported by Anne Gibbons, science writer, who admits that the latest mutation rate clock shows that humans originated just 6 ,000 years ago, and these findings are even being adopted in forensic analysis by the FBI.

In this study, completed by several leading scientists, revealed that a massive DNA variety explosion event happened roughly 5 ,000 years ago, which is in the ballpark for when the dispersion from the Tower of Babel took place.

Okay, so now on to the where question on human origins. God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which was cataclysmically destroyed by the flood about 4 ,300 years ago. Now, evolutionists differ on where they believe the cradle of mankind rests, but most agree that it was somewhere in Africa.

Perhaps the most important question regarding our origins is why? Even King David asked this question and marveled that God was even mindful of us. I suppose the short answer is that God loves us and wants us to be a part of His eternal plan with a meaningful experience both in this life and in the next.

Evolution, however, has no apparent reason or purpose for our existence. Next, we'll take a closer focus on some of the major differences between the biblical origin of humans and the evolutionary worldview.

Death as the Creator in Evolution

The classic evolutionary view is that some small mammal creature, which has been affectionately named Schrodinger, lived over 60 million years ago and somehow survived the dinosaur extinction, which evolutionists place about 65 million years ago.

According to them, the Schrodinger led to various evolved creatures, eventually leading to the Australopithecines about three to four million years ago, then to Homo habilis about 2 1⁄2 million years ago, then Homo erectus, and then eventually to Homo sapiens about 200 ,000 years back.

But do you notice something about the supposed progression? In order for one type of creature to eventually progress onto the next, it had to outlive, out-eat, out-kill, and out-survive numerous other creatures along the way.

This process ultimately makes death our creator because we're the products of a long line of bloodshed, change, and survival to exist in our current form. But the Bible paints a much different and better picture.

Put simply, God created a perfect world in six days that he even called very good, and then we messed it up. By eating the forbidden fruit and choosing to rebel against God, we brought onto ourselves and the world the curse that God promised.

In Genesis we read, "'But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die.'". The effect of our sin can even be seen in the world today with much suffering, bloodshed, and death.

Adam and Eve were certainly not standing on an earth full of fossils killed off by carnivorous death, disease, and suffering. Indeed, God did not call such a world very good. And what would be the big deal for Adam and Eve when God said death would come if they sinned, if they were already looking around at a garden filled with death and suffering?

So we have these two really different ideas. The first being that millions of years of death and suffering eventually progressed up to man's existence. Or the biblical view that life started out very good and our sin led to suffering, bloodshed, disease, and death.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and in this way, death came to all men because all sinned. So should we take the Genesis account literally? Well, if it's not literal, then Jesus somehow died for the sins of a mythical person, Adam.

No, the Bible is clear that the first man, Adam, brought sin and with it, death. And Romans 8 even confirms that our earth groans under the weight of the sin. So if Genesis is not real history with a real perfect garden that was wrecked by Adam and Eve, then why would anyone need to be saved?

You can see here how the truths laid down in Genesis are fundamental to the gospel message. Teens who blend secular science ideas and putting this over God's word as an authority for how life came to be, start picking and choosing their own theology, their own interpretation of truth instead of trusting the plain truth taught in the Bible.

This picking and choosing from God's word allows for morality to move from God's word into the hands of those reading it. Truth becomes like an a la carte menu where Christians can select which parts of God's word they wanna believe based on what they feel fits with what's called science or culture.

Most of us are familiar with this passage where the Lord Jesus says that we should love the Lord with all of our heart, soul, strength, and mind. So when we come to Christ and become saved, our hearts, souls, minds, and strength become His.

But how many youth today are living with all four of these fully engaged for the kingdom? When it comes to our Christian experience and dedication, living fully for Christ, many youth are sold out with their hearts and with their souls.

But when it comes to their minds, many students are not buying into the Bible and believing man's ideas instead. This causes a phenomenon known as cognitive dissidence when two apparent truths collide together.

This conflict oftentimes causes youth to hold out on their commitment to their faith, making them easy targets for the next challenge in their faith walk, college. Next, we wanna point out a few very practical examples that defeat the idea of evolution.

The Design of the Human Ear

We'll do this by looking at just one part of the human body, the ear. Isn't it incredible that all seven plus billion people on earth have functionally intact identical hearing systems? Except for, of course, some people born with defects.

If evolution was true, wouldn't you expect to see millions of people wandering around with half-created, still-unformed hearing systems? Now, we'll take a quick look at just how incredible this hearing system is.

In fact, the ear is so incredible that it's part of the body that God specifically points out as marvels of his design. To start, we'll take a look at two quick videos that demonstrate this incredible hearing system.

Ears are constantly active. They pick up sound waves and change them into information that the brain can interpret, such as music or speech. Sound is a pressure wave that can vibrate either quickly or slowly.

Slow vibrations produce deep sounds, while quick vibrations produce high-pitched sounds. Sound enters the ear and is directed through the ear canal, where it first reaches the eardrum. As the eardrum begins to vibrate, it sets the ossicular chain in motion.

The ossicular chain consists of the hammer, anvil, and the stirrup. Sound vibrations move along the ossicular chain and into the inner ear. Within the inner ear, the cochlea plays a central role. It is here that the mechanical energy of sound is converted into complex electrical signals, which are then passed on to the brain.

In simplified terms, the cochlea is a spiral-shaped tube filled with fluid. Sensory cells, also called hair cells, line the entire length of the cochlea. These hair cells have varying degrees of sensitivity for the detection of different tones or frequencies.

This allows the ear to perceive the entire spectrum of sound. The change from mechanical vibration to electrical pulse is a complex process resulting from the movement of hair cells in the cochlea. Along the entire length of the cochlea, the hair cells are arranged like the keys of a piano.

Hair cells located at the base, or lower region of the cochlea, are responsible for high frequency, while hair cells at the apex are responsible for the low frequencies. As the fluid in the cochlea is set in motion, it causes a corresponding movement of the fine structures on the surface of the hair cells to take place.

These movements cause tension differences, which produce electrical signals that are passed along the hearing nerve to the brain. The auditory cortex of the brain interprets this information as sound, for example, as music or speech.

The entire chain of events, including the various steps that convert sound waves from the environment into information that the brain can interpret, happens so fast that individuals can hear sound both continuously and instantaneously.

This next video breaks down the chemical and electrical processes involved in our hearing systems.

The apical portion of the hair cell is bathed in high potassium solution, and the base of the hair cell is bathed in potassium pore solution. This establishes that potassium flow through the cell is used for both depolarization, potassium in at the apex, and repolarization, potassium out at the base of the hair cell.

The hair cells convert vibrations into neural impulses sent to the brain. Your brain then interprets these nerve impulses as sound.

When taking an even closer look at the stereocilia inside the ears, scientists have found tiny molecular linking springs called tip links that are involved in the chemical part of the hearing process by acting to open and close tiny gates.

These tip links are so small that 530 of them could be stacked lengthwise along the width of a single hair. Perhaps even more incredibly, a single strand of our DNA is even smaller coming in at only 2 .5 nanometers in diameter.

Who could make such an incredible microscopic design that's created to function cooperatively with every other part of the hearing system? Perhaps an even more incredible part of the ear is the labyrinth, which includes three semicircular canals that are involved in our balance system.

Each of these canals is filled with fluid. When the moving fluid sends nerve signals to the brain, it tells which directions our heads are turned. The posterior semicircle canal detects when the head tilts down towards the shoulder.

The superior detects when the head nods up and down in a yes motion. And the lateral detects when the head shakes side to side in a no motion. There's even a part of the system that has tiny microscopic ear rocks made out of calcium carbonate that are embedded into a gelatinous membrane that can detect acceleration.

These tiny rocks act as counterbalances and move against the otolithic membrane in an amazing way. Breaking down how the five different parts in our hearing systems work in coordination is even more incredible.

Sound waves are captured by the outer ear, which in turn wiggle three tiny bones called the hammer, anvil, and stirrup, which press on the cochlea, turning the mechanical process into a hydraulic one, then an electronic one, which travels through the eighth cranial nerve and then into a chemical process in the brain where those sound waves are immediately comprehended as speech.

How could evolution design these five interconnected systems? So, breaking this down, sound pushed the air, which is trapped in the outer ear, then moved through a three inch pipe, which pushes an eardrum, then wiggles three tiny bones, increasing the force by 30%, then pushes fluid inside a rolled up tube, amplifying the signal even 22 times stronger, which opens and closes 20 ,000 trap doors based on frequency, then triggers a chemical reaction, creating electrical charges, which are immediately interpreted as sound by the brain, then understood as speech.

This all happens at the same time in a self-lubricated system with drainage tubes that's perpetually self-energized. Realistically speaking, how could something like this even evolve? Doesn't the design explanation make much more sense?

Now, there's a lot of ideas from various evolutionists who try and explain how our complex hearing system arose by chance mutations over supposed millions of years. Their current explanation is that two pieces of jawbone accidentally broke off and eventually migrated to the back of the head, then randomly assembled with nerves, chemicals, and electrical processes to make up the complex hearing system we have today.

So next, we'll take a look at chimpanzees, which evolutionists claim as our close ancient cousins. This short video clip reveals that chimps are just animals, animals that were specifically created to live in trees.

Notice how their feet are actually designed as hands with a thumb useful for climbing trees. See how agile this gibbon is? Made to live in trees, hopping from limb to limb with the dexterity of a squirrel.

Why Human Evolution Is Treated as a Moral and Cultural Stronghold

Next, we'll take a look at the implications that arise if we really evolved from ape-like creatures like Lucy. It all comes down to this. If we evolved from ape-like creatures, then death is responsible for giving us life?

In other words, if evolution is true, we exist today because randomness was refined by murder and selection of the fittest over millions of years and multiple creatures. You know, it's quite ironic that schools indoctrinate youth to believe they evolved from ape-like creatures, but hold them accountable to live under certain moral rules.

Sadly, our ministry sees a lot of Christians who, after drowning in the evolutionary teaching of public schools, have compromised their faith in the Bible, believing that God somehow must have used evolution to create life on Earth, and that the creation account, along with many other select places of God's word, must just be mythical.

Next, we'll take just a few minutes to look back at the track record of human evolution teaching. Piltdown Man was an icon of human evolution from 1912 to 1953, over 40 years. And over 500 books and papers were written about this icon.

Then in 1953, the truth came out that this whole thing was a fraud, being made of an ape jaw and a human skull. The next icon of the evolutionary lineup was Nebraska Man, who carried human evolution from 1917 to 1927, about 10 years.

This supposed ape-man transition was based upon a single tooth that was found in Nebraska, and it had so much clout that it was even used as evidence to promote human evolution in the famous Scopes Trial.

However, more teeth were discovered in 1927, suspending the idea that it was truly an ape-man until the 1970s, when they learned definitively that the teeth were from an extinct pig. And the next icon up are Neanderthals.

Neanderthals were used to promote the idea of human evolution for over 120 years, and most people over 40 today will remember that they were widely used in textbooks as the ancient, half-ape, half-human brutes that modern humans supposedly evolved from.

But over the last few decades, they've learned that they buried their dead, made musical instruments, tools, cosmetics, jewelry and purses, and recent DNA findings even confirm that they interbred with humans.

While they had some differences in size and shape compared to people today, they were most certainly just people. Okay, now we'll turn to see what the other side is doing with respect to promoting human evolution.

The Smithsonian recently partnered with the American Library Association to set up human evolution exhibits in 19 libraries over a two-year period. They're even trying to partner with churches to help them to embrace the idea of human evolution.

When partnering with clergy to embrace the idea of evolution, they mentioned that the conflict approach, that is, biblical creation versus evolution, quote, impedes public understanding of scientific methods and ongoing discoveries, end of quote.

But isn't it interesting how many evolutionists mix the idea of experimental science with historical science? Experimental science is based on observations that can be repeated, tested, and evaluated, and then used for developing medicine or putting people on the moon.

However, historical science, like evolution, cannot be observed, tested, or repeated. In other words, isn't it ironic that evolution is just a theory that's based on untestable ideas that have never been observed?

Lucy as the Lead Icon of Human Evolution

Now, let's turn to Lucy, the famous australopithecine that is currently the lead icon for human evolution today. In 1974, Donald Johanson went to Ethiopia with high hopes of finding human ancestors and discovered Lucy just two weeks before his funding ran out.

It's interesting that he found her on November 24th, 1974, exactly 115 years after Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Now, let's listen to what Donald Johanson thinks about God, the Bible, and the idea that God is our creator.

Darwin, if he were alive today, would probably be very happy with this poster. I want you to support science and reason. So get God's name off the money that we all worship and get in science we trust.

I don't think we'll do that, but we do need to get that name off of our money. There is no question. And we have to understand that this is an exciting opportunity to be alive and not sit around and worry about some omnipotent being keeping score to decide whether we're gonna end up in eternal ecstasy or unending damnation.

So the problem is that people's prayers don't get answered. Why? Well, here it was with the New Yorker. God finds all the prayers of mankind in his spam folder. So we now have an explanation. Is to reawaken, as the advert will say, a reverence.

I'll use that word. I'll take that word. For the natural world and our place in the natural world. To respect the creativity of the true creator, Mother Nature. And of course, I thought I'd show you through the great breakthroughs in science from Marie Curie to the great accelerators and how much has been accomplished in religion.

Well, if you go to the Creation Museum, there she is. She's a four-legged walking quadrupedal knuckle walker because of Dr. Ham. I don't know what he got his doctorate in, but may have been one of those things you get at Sears.

But there ain't no way that Lucy was walking on her knuckles, on four legs. So a child goes in and sees this in a suppressed way. The child doesn't know one way or another.

Continuing on with Dr. Johanson's famous Lucy, let's look at just how significant evolutionists believe she is. Here's a famous painting that you've probably seen before. It's called The Creation of Adam.

And it was painted by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the 16th century to glorify God as the creator of mankind. Now I wanna draw your attention to a specific part of this painting, the very moment when God activated Adam as a living spirit-filled being, if you will.

Now let's take a look at what Donald Johanson points out about the movie Lucy when the main star Scarlett Johanson journeys back through time and gets to touch ancient Lucy's finger. Following is Johanson himself narrating the significance of this special moment.

Jaxie goes back and meets her. Very funky. But we all know where this came from. This image right here. So that is more or less the story of Lucy and her discovery, her importance. Important role she's played in my life, of course, as an anthropologist.

Isn't it interesting how far some will go to replace God, the creator of Adam, with an ape? The idea presented by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel was that God should be glorified as creator. But the idea being presented in the movie Lucy and affirmed by Johanson is that ultimately, Lucy and other apes like her should be given credit as our creators because they survived death, bloodshed, disease, and millions of years of survival of the fittest to eventually lead to you and me.

Replacing God's creative act with this idea is blasphemous. Next, we'll hear a clip from Lee Berger, discoverer of the human evolutionary icon, Sadiba, when he met with executives at National Geographic.

I was, in the late 1990s, I was privileged enough to win the first National Geographic Prize for Research and Exploration. When I went to receive that medal in Washington, I was hauled up into those sort of magnificent offices up on the top floor of National Geographic, sat across from Gilbert Grosvenor, the then CEO, and Bill Allen, powerful editor of the magazine.

And they said something I hope all of you hear sometime in your life. They said to me, you can have anything you want, any amount of money you want to do anything you want. Now, they, of course, meant that within some reason, I presumed, but I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

I wanted to apply technology to the search for these incredibly rare fossils and the sites that they come from.

The fact is, we're bombarded with human evolutionary teaching. The Croods present the idea of cavemen turning into humans. Planet of the Apes has seven movies that present the idea that chimps can rapidly change into empathetic, smart, human-like beings.

And the movie Lucy promotes the idea of Lucy being our ancestor, as well as the now disproven myth that we only use 10 of our brains. The truth is, we use 100 of our brains, just different parts at different times.

The theories, movies, and textbooks that promote human evolution are all part of the stronghold that keeps many people away from believing in God. People who cannot see the obvious, plain, miraculous truth that we were created are led astray by these ideas and remain spiritually blinded.

And isn't it ironic how our culture affirms the idea that we are evolved apes, but then holds us accountable to live like upright spiritual beings with morals and a conscience? This chart shows research that we recently finalized after surveying 290 students aged 14 to 24.

Students were asked the open-ended question, what is the best evidence for evolution? And the responses were sorted into 10 different categories. The leading response had to do with human evolution, followed by Darwin's theories, fossils, then science as an authority.

So it's important that we focus on debunking the main pillar, human evolution. Now we'll take a specific look at Lucy, the leading icon used in the promotion of human evolution. We'll clearly show that she's not a human ancestor using almost entirely research that's been conducted and published by evolutionists.

Lucy is the predominant figure used as an example of human evolution in most school textbooks, typically starting with world history class in sixth grade. As shown here, she's typically portrayed as walking upright, acting like a human, using tools, and in every instance we found, she's been portrayed with wide eyes, a characteristic that no apes have today.

We believe this is done in order to make her appear more human-like. While the typical evolutionary story begins with the Schrodinger, the mammal from which our human line supposedly evolved, school textbooks many times start with Lucy's kind and then go on to Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and eventually Homo sapiens, modern humans.

While our presentation focuses mostly on Lucy's kind, the Australopithecines, it's useful to note that the fossil collection of Homo habilis is much, much smaller than Lucy's kind. In fact, you can fit all the Homo habilis fossils into a shoebox and still have enough room for a pair of shoes.

And Homo erectus fossils are just human remains of various shapes and sizes. And then finally, Homo sapiens, of course, are just humans. We want to mention that Lucy's remains were found by Johansson scattered along a hillside.

Hundreds of Lucy's bone fragments were found and later glued into 47 skeletal bones. Most of her skull, hands, and feet were missing. After studying Lucy for over 40 years and discovering about 20 more of her kind, there's been more questions raised than firm answers about who she was and whether she was really the ape creature that was leading to mankind.

We'll look at 10 of Lucy's fatal flaws that proves she's not even close to being on her way to being human. And surprisingly, all of these flaws have been pointed out by evolutionists, not creationists.

First, we should point out something that's not widely known about Lucy. And it's certainly not been spotted in a sixth grade textbook that we've discovered. Lucy was pieced together from hundreds of bone fragments that were scattered across the hillside.

And just a couple years ago, we learned that not all of her bones actually belong to her. But more on this later. Lucy started out as hundreds of pieces, then went to 47 skeletal bones, and then magically turned into a human-like ape that is now prominently displayed in books and museums across the country.

Now we'll take a tour through the 10 main reasons that Lucy's not a human ancestor, starting from her head, then down to her toes. The skull on the top right shows a rendition of what they thought her skull looked like.