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'Lucy' Goes Digital

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Killgore Trout2/08/2009 12:10:43 pm PST
The Discovery Institute is in Seattle; think they’ll organize a field trip for their “fellows?”)


Here’s the Disco Institute’s report from the scene…..
My Pilgrimage to Lucy’s Holy Relics Fails to Inspire Faith in Darwinism

No doubt many an eager Darwinist has attended the Lucy exhibit hoping to find confirmation of their views. Instead, what they found was a small coffin-like case holding scraps ambiguous bones.

Whether you’re a true believer in Lucy’s status as a transitional form, or an apostate who suspects that her story and reconstruction could be largely myth, the Lucy exhibit at the Pacific Science Center is worth visiting (after all, even atheists visit holy relics due to their literary and cultural significance). So go see the exhibit, keep an open mind, and come to your own conclusions. Just be forewarned that regardless of what you believe, you’re likely to walk away from Lucy feeling underwhelmed at the incompleteness of the fossil and the lack of clarity in the case for human evolution.