Just Doin' the Bear Crawl

Argh!!! Evolutionists Running Wild


Throwback: the family (have) astounded anthropologists


An extraordinary family who walk on all fours are being hailed as the breakthrough discovery which could shed light on the moment Man first stood upright. Scientists believe that the five brothers and sisters found in Turkey could hold unique insights into human evolution.

The Kurdish siblings, aged between 18 and 34 and from the rural south, 'bear crawl' on their feet and palms. Study of the five has shown the astonishing behaviour is not a hoax and they are largely unable to walk otherwise. Researchers have found a genetic condition which accounts for their extraordinary movement. And it could provide invaluable information on how humans evolved from a four-legged hominid into a creature walking on two feet.

Two of the daughters and a son have only ever walked on two palms and two feet, but another son and daughter sometimes manage to walk upright. The five can stand upright, but only for a short time, with both knees and head flexed.

Their remarkable story is told in a television documentary, to be screened next week, which shows scientists studying their movement, but also their struggle to fit in with modern society. Professor Nicholas Humphrey, evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, visited the family twice. He said: "It's amazing as an example of a strange, strange aberration of human development. But their interest is how they can live in the modern world."

The five are all mentally retarded. Their mother and father, who are closely related are believed to have handed down a unique combination of genes which result in the behaviour. Some researchers argue the genetic fault has caused the brothers and sisters to regress to a form of 'backward evolution'. Others believe it has led to brain damage which has allowed them to develop the walk.

Rather than walking on their knuckles, like gorillas or chimpanzees, they walk on the palms of their hands, with their fingers spread upwards. Scientists believe this may be the way hominids moved to protect their fingers for more delicate movements.

Prof. Humphrey said he thought the family had reverted to an instinctive form of behaviour encoded deep in the brain but abandoned during evolution. He said: "I do not think they were destined to be quadrupeds by their genes, but their unique genetic make-up allowed them to be. It has produced an extraordinary window on our past. It is physically possible, which no one would have guessed from the modern human skeleton."

Study of their hands has shown they are heavily callused and have been walking like this for years.

Prof. Humphrey said: "However they arrived at this point, we have adult human beings walking like ancestors several million years ago."

The five siblings spend most of their time sitting outside the family's basic rural home. However, one brother travels to the local village where he engages in basic interactions with people.

The documentary, to be shown on BBC2 on Friday, March 17, is called The Family That Walks On All Fours.


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Please! Please! Could I comment on this? Thank you.

Remind me not to scratch, grunt, or crawl in sight of Professor Humphrey! He goes ape over such throwback manifestations. Apparently the BBC cheers him on. This poor, inoffensive Kurdish family now have to contend with cameras chasing them up and down southern Turkey. Others pursue them with pad and pencil to record their monosyllabic utterances. Hopefully the reporters speak the language. Somehow it looks like party time for the evolutionists. They have tried to tell us for decades that our ancestors dragged their knuckles along the jungle floors and now they rejoice in telling us nonbelievers, "I told you so."

Oh, beg pardon great gurus of science! You've proved . . . . Wait a minute Prof. Humphrey and evolutionary hordes! Just what have you proved? So far we have very calloused palms of people doing the bear crawl. One of them looks a little like she is raising her fingers from the sand, but the others don't look like they are raising them at all. Shoulder girdle musculature isn't well developed for those in the picture, not like they should look if they put much weight on their arms. They all raise high in the back and walk straight-legged. That really looks awkward. It must put enormous strain on the neck to have to keep their heads up to see where they are going. Not a pleasant way to walk at all. We also hear they are mentally disabled. Poor souls. We hope they are richly paid to have to undergo the unblinking eyes of evolutionists. Hopefully they will receive at least as much as those producing the documentary. After all, they are the stars.

Maybe they really walk this way, and maybe they don't. Maybe their palms are calloused, and maybe they aren't. Maybe they always bear crawl this way, and ... yes, we see from the news story that two of them walk upright on occassion and all five can stand for short periods of time. We haven't seen most of these things, but we are asked to trust you. Should we? You have told us that millions of years ago our ancestors walked sort of like they do. You weren't there. You have absolutely nothing to base your conjectures upon. You can't produce any of those hominids you so glibly describe. You can't prove or even present a good case for macro-evolution, but you state it as a given, as if anybody with an erg of brains should know we evolved from pond scum. Should we trust you or should we smell a rat in scientists' clothing?

These souls stand upright. I stand upright. These souls do the bear crawl. Football players do it in conditioning--excellent work to help them roll around on the ground. Perhaps football players had better stop doing the bear crawl before they "devolute." Some more intellectual types think they are a bunch of Cretans already. Maybe we had better stop encouraging our infants to creep and crawl because one of you might have the--not so bright--idea that this is an image of sensory integration reminiscent of anthropoid ancestry.

Are any of these five specimens expecting a child or helping to procreate one? You hope so, don't you? Perhaps you hope for twins so you can use one as the experimental group and the other one as the control group. (Please cut them in, also, when the next evolutionary documentary is foisted upon the gullible public.) Alligator man, elephant man, Australian Aborigines, move over. Here come evolutionist's new poster children. They've hit the big time now with folks doing the bear crawl.

Now, back to the facts in your case for quadruped throwbacks. But why should I help you? You don't have any facts, just wild excitement in thinking you have evidence to slander our Creator, hoping he will go away and leave you guilt free. He won't, you know. You see, he loves those five "living fossils" you hold in contempt. God created Adam and Eve on the sixth literal day of the creation week. He called the wonderful work of his hands "very good." You treat as subhuman those whom God has created in His own image. Everything God made a few thousand years ago was good. Who told me? God did. Millions of us believe Him.

The sin of disobeying God brought judgement upon all creation. Although the first law of thermodynamics says matter is now neither created nor destroyed inside a closed system, the second law of thermodynamics came as God's verdict upon mankind's rebellion. Everyone should understand this law, even evolutionists. Disintegration is the law and the effect of matter and energy in the world and in the universe. When man fell from grace, he became prone to a multitude of maladies finally ending in physical death. You don't need your science to see that. Everything that can happen to a body has happened at one time or another. Walking on all fours seems like a minor condition when we see flesh-eating bacteria, crippling polio, alzheimers (in which people can forget how to eat and walk), cancer in every organ of the body, genetic mutations of all kinds. The Bible never denies what sin has done to all of us. I know a man with disintegrating vertebrae who walks all bent over. Put away your cameras.


Just remember that while you are studying these poor folks, they have a loving God who was there in the beginning. Your theories deny Him and His love. True love defies evolution. You use these people to spin another filament in your web of deceit. I'd like to hear about their love for one another, this human only kind of love evolution cannot explain. You see high-order regressing beasts. God sees souls He gave his only son to die upon a cruel cross to save so they could live with Him eternally. Jesus died for this Kurdish family, and no matter how you deny him or mock him, he died for you. Study this.