This is the latest news from the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) — the granddaddy of all creationist outfits, the fountainhead of young-earth creationist wisdom.
In one brief article, Man Was Created Distinct from Apes, ICR’s creation scientists have finally resolved one of humanity’s most urgent problems. Here are some excerpts, with bold font added by us:
Decisive evidence has accumulated that refutes the evolutionary concept that mankind evolved from an ape-like ancestor.
Wow — they have “decisive evidence”! We know you can’t wait to see what it is, so here we go:
For example, all candidate intermediate forms are disputed by evolutionary paleontologists. A fossil thought by some evolutionists to represent a “pre-human” is often interpreted by others as an extinct primate.
Some fossils are extinct primates? But … aren’t all simians (including monkeys, apes and humans) primates? Let’s read on:
Also, none of the proposed transitional forms possess features that show any “halfway” structures. Instead, the features are all already fully formed and suited for the individual’s overall mode of life, whether that of living in trees or dwelling on the ground.
Ah yes, as you review what is known about human evolution, or stroll through the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Ancestors you’ll notice that there are no “half and half” transitional forms — like Piltdown Man. Every ancestral candidate was fully-formed! That doesn’t surprise us — a half-formed creature couldn’t survive long enough to be anyone’s ancestor. And that means evolution is impossible! We continue:
Further, nobody has demonstrated step by step how any ape-like set of features could have transmutated into any of the long list of specifically human traits, including skeletal arrangements that enable mankind’s peculiar and efficient “knees pointed forward” manner of walking.
There’s no “step by step” proof. So until the whole family tree is discovered, with a fossil specimen from every generation, evolution is a failed concept. Here’s more:
The Creator of all life said in His Word that He created mankind specially and in His image, and the fossil evidence bears this out.
Okay, that’s good evidence. And here’s the end:
Some fossils are not informative enough to accurately identify. Thus, any given “hominin” fossil is either unknown, or from a human, or from an ape.
So there you are. With decisive evidence like that, you can be assured that you ain’t no kin to no monkey.
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Monkeys
ICR, claiming what the Discoveroids hope that their audience either doesn’t read, or cluelessly tunes out:
“Some fossils are not informative enough to accurately identify. Thus, any given ‘hominin’ fossil is either unknown, or from a human, or from an ape.”
Actually that undermines even the pretense of the very creation “science” that ICR started half a century ago. If creation “science” is to be falsifiable, it has to state what evidence (that we don’t have) would support a transitional. Instead they rule out the possibility that even yet-unknown fossils must be one or the other.
The real reason that they must state that, even though it risks losing part of their audience, is that the “fossils are not informative enough to accurately identify” are only considered to be that because different creationists are on record as being totally confused as to which are ape and which are human. And that alone is a dramatic argument for evolution and for the sheer hopelessness of creationism/ID.
“The Creator of all life said in His Word that He created mankind specially and in His image. . .” So we are invisible and non-existent? Must get coffee and then have ICR ‘splain this to me.
“Also, none of the proposed transitional forms possess features that show any “halfway” structures. Instead, the features are all already fully formed and suited for the individual’s overall mode of life, whether that of living in trees or dwelling on the ground.”
So, evolution doing what it does is evidence that it didn’t?
I can’t get over the way these guys keep going on about how never having found some half-and-half hybrid of two different animals is somehow proof that evolution never happened, when, as I’ve seen pointed out somewhere (here?), actually finding such a creature would be a pretty clear disproof of evolution.
(Of course, there is their own half-one-thing-half-another that proves something- their strawman couldn’t possibly have evolved, he was evidently created by a Designer.)
These guys are like 9/11 CTers- they don’t know the meanings of the words “decisive,” “evidence,” or “refute.”
Scientists argue these cases because, obviously, the fossils have characteristics of both “pre-human” and “extinct primates”.. (using ICR’s terms) If they did not, there would be no argument as to what they were. As Frank J. points out, creationists argue about these fossils as well.
ICR believes that all animals were created by God at essentially the same time. Adam in fact named them (presumably including new world animals and creatures living around ocean vents etc). If so, then the great apes and all the various human-like or ape-like creatures we know only from fossils were also there at the same time, being named by Adam and generally existing in the area. If God created humans uniquely in his image, then why did he create so many creatures that were nearly in his image? We they early attempts at getting the body form just right? Was he working that clay, creating creatures, then reflecting on it and thinking, “no, the forehead’s not quite right, and it should have a bit larger brain, hmm…off to the fossil pile for you”.
I think the “pre-human” versus “extinct primate” issue is about Ida, the lemuriform hailed with such media hype a couple of years ago.
Also, note that all mammals (indeed, all vertebrates) have “forward pointing knees”, and that human knees are constructed differently from other mammals (except that other mammals don’t *lock* their knees when they walk)
To paraphrase a well-known line, “AAAH! I love the smell of desperation in the morning”
Both the ICR and the Discoveroids sound like shrill maiden aunts after a few sherries.