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long arms, identical to those of orangutans that permit them to climb

trees, short legs and all their other characteristics, are clearly a species of
ape. Yet despite all this evidence, they were still declared by Darwinists to
be “life forms that walked upright.” This famous claim of bipedalism
(walking upright) that evolutionists make in the context of every extinct
species of simian, was again in this case of course completely unfounded.

Not a single piece of evidence was produced. The fossils simply reveal
that they belong to a species of simian. What they are trying to do, just as
in the case of Ardi, is to invent a false intermediate form for supposed hu-
man evolution by portraying a perfect chimpanzee as walking on two
legs. But, just as with Ardi, this claim is entirely unsupported by any evi-
dence and is definitely a fabrication. Moreover, again as with the furore
over Ardi, the majority of Darwinists have expressed their embarrass-
ment over it all.

The strongest criticism of Darwinists, who declared a perfect, extinct
simian fossil to be the forerunner of man by saying “we expect it walked
upright,” even though all its physical characteristics suggested the exact
opposite, came from Darwinists embarrassed by this illogical fanfare.
Hearing of the claim in question, the renowned Darwinist scientist

Carl Zimmer challenged the deception being perpetrated regarding Ida
and complained, “please, please, not again!” In an article on the Slate
magazine web site, he said that Ida was first described as a “missing link”
in the Telegraph, and then, with no loss of time, by other news channels.
Zimmer noted that, although no information had been provided about
the fossil, the reports in questions described it in excited language along
the lines of “we have at long last found our ancestor.” When information

about the fossil was published in Science magazine approximately one
week later, the world found itself looking at the famous Australopithecus
sediba. Zimmer continued:
… these fossils are certainly significant in a lot of ways, one thing they
definitely are not is a missing link. 311