From the BBC: Upright walking ‘began in trees.’ This according to a study in the journal Science by Susannah Thorpe, Robin Crompton and Roger Holder.

They found that orangutans used upright locomotion to fetch food from the small branches of trees and to cross directly from one tree to another.

“Both access to fruits and crossing gaps in the trees would require an ability to navigate very thin, terminal tree branches which are liable to bend under body mass,” said Professor Robin Crompton, from the University of Liverpool.

“The logical conclusion from the environmental, fossil, and experimental evidence is that upright, straight-legged walking originally evolved as an adaptation to tree-dwelling.”

They suggest the shift made by our ancestors to a terrestrial lifestyle came about as climate change thinned out their forest habitat.

In response, these ancient ape-like creatures, or hominids, may have abandoned the high canopy for the forest floor. Here, they remained bipedal and began eating food from the ground or from smaller trees.

Well, if so, the question is: Isn’t it about time we went back to running around on all-fours? It’s a heck of a lot faster, as I realize every time I try to keep up with my tiny terrier. What’s the advantage in being so darned slow?

I think that those who believe that it is something other than rational to doubt the complete veracity of the theory of evolution ought to consider why, 148 years after the publication of “On the Origin of Species,” Darwinists are still grasping at such bizarre explanations for how humans came to be.

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