I do forgive you if you imagine I just lounge around my compound munching on bananas. The truth is, I do have a structured method of research, that I have developed myself. This research involves extending my understanding of so-called “ape to man” evolution. This is an adventure I thoroughly recommend that my serious readers undertake. Take the well known Australopithecus afarensis best known by the fossil Lucy. What a remarkable mixture of fact and fiction! (See above picture, for example). Consider the following piece of history:

‘Lucy’ isn’t the ‘Missing Link’!

‘Lucy’ is the popular name given to the famous fossil skeleton found in 1974 in Ethiopia by American anthropologist Donald Johanson. To many people, Lucy is regarded as a certain link between ape-like creatures and man—thus supposedly proving evolution. But is Lucy really a pre-human ancestor?

According to Richard Leakey, who along with Johanson is probably the best-known fossil-anthropologist in the world, Lucy’s skull is so incomplete that most of it is ‘imagination made of plaster of paris’. Leakey even said in 1983 that no firm conclusion could be drawn about what species Lucy belonged to.

I am hugely grateful to such publications as the Answers Book from CMI and their scholarly website, www.creation.com 

Creation Ministries International is a great help in my quest for my link to humanity. I will keep on searching!

Gibber! Gibber!

Chugley

The Student Chimp

P.S. Lucy seems to be as fanciful as the drawing which inspired the song ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’.