Evolutionists Love 'Lucy,' But AIG Calls Fossil Tour Anti-Creationist Hype
by Jeff Johnson
October 27, 2006
(AgapePress) - - Many American scientists are excited that "Lucy," an allegedly 3.2-million-year-old skeleton, will be coming to the United States next year. Creationists, however, are predicting that Lucy's tour will be much more about promoting the theory of evolution than about expanding real scientific knowledge.Associated Press news reports announcing Lucy's visit state as fact that the fossilized remains are between three and four million years old and that "debate" still rages about how close an ancestor to man Lucy would be. But Ken Ham, president of the biblical creationist group Answers in Genesis, says those reports are only the beginning of Lucy's anti-creationism tour.
"When I see that they're bringing the most famous of the supposed 'human ancestor' fossils to America, and they're going to feature it across America, I can see this is a big push for evolution," Ham observes.
"There's a lot of evidence that goes against Lucy being upright and as a human ancestor and so on," the Answers in Genesis spokesman says. However, he has no illusions about the likelihood of those facts being brought out during the tour.
"We'll see Lucy portrayed in a particular way," Ham says, with exhibitors "trying to tell the American public that this is your human ancestor and that this is fact. And they won't put all the information in there that contradicts that."
The "Lucy" tour will include nearly 200 other artifacts and relics. The exhibit will travel to Chicago, Denver, Houston, New York, and Washington, DC, and to as many as six other U.S. cities.
Jeff Johnson, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
