12/22/2025
UPRIGHT FROM THE START
In the latest evolutionary update, the story has changed again.
Now we are told that humans did not first learn to walk upright on the ground, but in the trees. According to a recent study from the Max Planck Institute, researchers watched chimpanzees in Tanzania occasionally stand on two legs while moving among branches. From this observation, the conclusion was drawn that our supposed ancestors may have practiced bipedalism in the trees before ever using it on land. Apparently the savannah explanation has expired. Welcome to the arboreal edition.
This sounds impressive until you slow down and actually think about it. Chimps standing upright for a moment are still chimps. They do not become human because they balance on two legs while grabbing fruit. Occasional upright posture is well within the normal design of many animals. Dogs do it. Bears do it. That does not turn them into people. Observing a behavior and then attaching a sweeping evolutionary narrative to it is not evidence. It is storytelling.
What is especially telling is how often the explanation keeps changing. First upright walking evolved on open grasslands. Now it evolved in trees. Tomorrow it will be something else. The data stays the same. The interpretation shifts to protect the theory. Fossils cited from the Miocene still look like apes because they are apes. No half humans required.
The biblical account does not need to be revised every decade. Scripture says God created man fully human from the beginning, upright and walking on Day Six. Apes were created separately, fully equipped for climbing, swinging, and even occasional upright movement. No confusion. No guesswork. No constant rewrites.
So no, humans did not slowly learn to walk in trees before graduating to the ground. Man was created upright from the start. The chimps are doing exactly what chimps were designed to do. The only thing evolving here is the story.