Recent reports and video of a gorilla in Britain that sometimes walks upright has been celebrated by some (but certainly not all) evolutionists as "evidence" of evolution. What most fascinates me about the story is that this "news" comes after apparently Ambam has a sister and a father who did the same thing. Also, the idea that this shows apes could spontaneously in the wild learn to walk upright (and thereby eventually become humans) isn't even endorsed by the zookeepers, who openly acknowledge the apes likely learned this action by watching the humans. So, I guess the argument (again, by some) would go like this: "Humans could have evolved for the first time from apes AFTER they learned how to stand up from having watched humans who were ALREADY standing up." I've softened quite a bit on the creation/evolution controversy, but this is embarrassing for those (some) people who are treating this as some sort of developmental evidence of evolution.
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