Zeresenay Alemseged from the University of Chicago discovered the remains back in 2000. He and other paleoanthropologists described the foot in Science Advances. He told LiveScience that the big toe on the fossil’s post-it-note-size foot did not stick out to the side like it does in modern chimps, but was curved inward like today’s tree-climbing apes. The study authors speculated that Lucy’s kind could grasp and climb tree branches with its feet.
So why call it a human ancestor if it possessed non-human feet?
Even before this new foot description, some evolutionists—depending on which expert is consulted—have concluded that the Lucy type was just an ape kind. The late British zoologist Solly Zuckerman declared, “They are just apes.”
The main evolutionary story line favoring Lucy as a human ancestor involves famous footprints at Laetoli. Independent studies determined the African tracks exactly matched those of humans. But their position in sediment layers deemed older than evolution’s age assignment for humanity meant that something not human must have made them.
The story reeks of evolution-serving circular reasoning. An imaginary ape having human feet and body posture only exists in the minds of those who assume humans evolved from ape-like ancestors. But a look at the fossils instead of listening to evolutionary stories opens a new option: that the Laetoli tracks look human because actual humans made them. But this would force another rewrite of human evolution in general." ICR
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
Genesis 1:26
