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The Bipedalism Impasse 
Human beings move in a completely different way from other creatures. No other animal can walk upright on its two feet as humans do. Evolutionists, however, claim that the bipedal upright stride of humans evolved by steps from the apes' quadripedal bent stride.
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 evolutionist paleoanthropologist, makes the following confession in relation to this issue:
Four of the most outstanding mysteries about humans are: 1) why do they walk on two legs? 2) why have they lost their fur? 3) why have they developed such large brains? 4) why did they learn to speak? The orthodox answers to these questions are: 1) 'We do not yet know'; 2) 'We do not yet know'; 3) 'We do not yet know'; 4) 'We do not yet know'. The list of questions could be considerably lengthened without affecting the monotony of the answers.61 In short, "the evolution of man" is nothing but an unsubstantiated tale. Man is created by God already equipped with all the abilities and features he possesses.
60- Ruth Henke, "Aufrecht aus den Baumen", Focus, Vol 39, 1996, p. 178  61- Elaine Morgan, The Scars of Evolution, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, p. 5 |
This
claim is not true. Firstly, the fossil record shows that no life
form ever had a way of movement in between the human and the ape
stride. Detailed examinations of the fossil record prove that creatures
of the Australopithecus and Homo habilis classes walked on all fours
and by leaning forward, while human races such as Homo erectus and
Neanderthal man walked upright just like us. This means that the
bipedal upright stride emerged with humans for the first time and
all of a sudden. 
Besides,
anatomical research conducted in recent years establishes that the
gradual evolution of the ape stride into the human stride is impossible.
In 1996, the British anatomist Robin Crompton, who conducted research
into the bipedal stride of humans, concluded that a motion in between
the ape stride and the human stride is not possible. Crompton showed
that a living thing can either walk upright or on all fours. A type
of in-between stride would be quite ineffective.
The
entire skeletal structure of apes is designed according to
the quadripedal stride. Their arms are long and their skeleton
is bent forward. Moreover, their hands and feet are curved
to enable them to climb trees. 
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