Creation Moment 8/21/21 - Bipedal Problem for Evolution

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind,... 

Genesis 1:24

"Böhme et al. recently described the ‘bipedal’ (upright-walking) baboon-sized fossil ape Danuvius guggenmosi from Bavaria, Germany. It is claimed to be over 11 million years old in the

evolutionary timescale, which would mean that bipedalism existed millions of years earlier than the first supposed ‘ape-men’ (aka hominins). Given that evolutionists use bipedalism to assign fossils to the ‘hominin’ lineage, this finding devastates their argument that the australopiths (e.g. ‘Lucy’) were ‘apemen’ because they may have been bipedal in some way.

The finding is a real blow to the idea that bipedalism equals ‘ape-man’. I.e., if apes/primates in Europe (and there are now several, e.g. Danuvius guggenmosi, Rudapithecus hungaricus and Oreopithecus bambolii) were built for some form of bipedalism, yet are not regarded as ape-men, then why would bipedal features in the australopiths from Africa mean they were ape-men?

On the locomotion of D. guggenmosi, Kivell wrote that the authors interpreted the shape of the “fossils as indicating a type of previously unknown movement that they term extended limb clambering, which combines adaptations of both suspension in the trees and bipedal locomotion.” Today’s orangutans can also move bipedally in trees, though not habitually. Thus, the ability to walk bipedally (though not necessarily in the same way as humans) appears to have been a useful designed method of movement for some extinct tree-dwelling primates." CMI