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In the case of Ardi, as always, Darwinists produced not an extinct species of monkey but a living thing identical to Bonobo chimpanzee living today. They then try to deceive people with statements such as “All right, the monkey is now standing upright.”
Darwinists took an ordinary monkey fossil and reconstructed its pelvic bone, which was shattered into tiny fragments just millimeters in size, in such a way as to show that it “could walk upright.” The sole reason why the fossil concerned was chosen as the best suited candidate for the fictitious scenario of human evolution is that the pelvic bone could be reconstructed “as they wished” by Darwinist scientists. Darwinists did what was needed for the sake of Darwinism and Ardi was shamelessly presented to the world as an “upright monkey.” It was, without any qualms, depicted as the greatest evidence for the myth of human evolution. But, like all the others , this furore was short-lived and the Darwinist fraud was quickly exposed. And in the example of Ardi, directly through statements by Darwinist scientists.
It is now time for them to apologise for Ardi.
William Jungers, the Darwinist departmental head of the anatomic sciences department at the Stony Brook, Long Island medical center, issued the following statement about the claims regarding Ardi being “the ancestor of man:”
I think some of the things they said might have been for effect.301
Tim White, a Darwinist from the University of California who studied Ardi and suggested it represented a missing link in the fictitous evolution of man, and his colleagues were forced to make the following statement:
There are no apparent features sufficiently unique to warrant the exclusion of Ar. ramidus as being ancestral to Australopithecus.302
The fact that the pelvic bone, a collection of tiny fragments, and the surrounding area were reconstructed according to Darwinist scientists’ preconceptions was openly expressed by other Darwinist scientists.
Jungers says this on the subject:
Maybe the pieces do fit together nicely, but the reality is they start out with a very damaged specimen, and they end up with something very similar to an australopithecine" (the group that includes "Lucy," the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus as well as a 2.7-million-year-old Paranthropus)... [Ardi] requires a lot of guesswork.303
After examining the fossil, Jungers explicitly stated, “after working with the fossils himself, there is no way that they could belong to an animal that wasn't often walking on its hind legs," unless the data "were deliberately ignored, or if we had made them up.”304 ”By that statement, Tim White and his team are admitting that they signed up to a new deception in the name of Darwinism.
It is not only findings regarding the pelvic bone that give the lie to the claims about Ardi. An article published in Science magazine said that the anatomy of its foot revealed that Ardi was a climber. Another article, by Katherine Harmon from Scientific American magazine, titled “How Humanlike Was Ardi?” explicitly stated that a single fragment from a foot was not sufficient to show that the animal stood erect. The feet, and particularly the big toes, exhibit features that still exist in present-day chimpanzees and that are useful in climbing. Jungers summarizes this situation as follows:
(Ardi) it really doesn't show any adaptations for bipedalism at all.305
Devoid of any evidence to support their claims, Darwinists are finally resorting to this deception in order to be able to depict this life form as a forebearer of human beings: “Its teeth are small, because while the males were off hunting, the females looked after the young.” This desperate claim is in fact significant evidence of the despairing situation in which Darwinists find themselves. Because they have no evidence, they have no hesitation about resorting to demagoguery instead. It is a disgrace for a scientist to make such a claim and declare, on that basis, that a literally flawless Bonobo chimpanzee is a forebearer of man. But even if Darwinists disgrace themselves they still reiterate these feeble claims in the name of their Darwinist ideology.