Page 187 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

only for a short time. Normally, their skeletons
lean forward and they walk on all fours.
Well, then, has bipedalism evolved from
the quadrupedal gait of apes, as evolutionists
claim?
Of course not. Research has shown that
the evolution of bipedalism never occurred,
nor is it possible for it to have done so. First
of all, bipedalism is not an evolutionary
advantage. The way in which apes move is
much easier, faster, and more efficient than
man's bipedal stride. Man can neither move by
jumping from tree to tree without descending
to the ground, like a chimpanzee, nor run at a
Apes' hands and feet are
speed of 125 km per hour, like a cheetah. On
curled in a manner suited to
the contrary, since man walks on two feet, he living in trees.
moves much more slowly on the ground. For
the same reason, he is one of the most unprotected of all species in nature
in terms of movement and defence. According to the logic of evolution,
apes should not have evolved to adopt a bipedal stride; humans should
instead have evolved to become quadrupedal.
Another impasse of the evolutionary claim is that bipedalism does not
serve the "gradual development" model of Darwinism. This model, which
constitutes the basis of evolution, requires that there should be a "compound"
stride between bipedalism and quadrupedalism. However, with the
computerized research he conducted in 1996, Robin Crompton, senior
lecturer in anatomy at Liverpool University, showed that such a "compound"
stride was not possible. Crompton reached the following conclusion: A
living being can either walk upright, or on all fours. 225 A type of stride
between the two is impossible because it would involve excessive energy
consumption. This is why a half-bipedal being cannot exist.
The immense gap between man and ape is not limited solely to
bipedalism. Many other issues still remain unexplained, such as brain
capacity, the ability to talk, and so on. Elaine Morgan, an evolutionary
paleoanthropologist, makes the following confession in relation to this
matter:

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