You’ll have to ask all the grant request writers and other ‘scientific’ useful idiots that question. Everyone knows dating methods are dubious and that those ‘early hominids’ are not that different, etc...
They set out to ‘disprove’ creation and grasped at straws, manipulated the evidence (like climate change ‘scientists’.) The hoax is finally exposed!
They didn’t. They are complexities of the unknown wherein “scientists” search about in the dark with both hands and cant even find their own arses....
Perhaps the fact that the dating is based on the cyclical theology of carbon dating, fossil record and other incomplete and mutually supporting concepts.
And perhaps, risking it all, they too are hoaxes or simple errors like the rest of the “missing link” discoveries.
Lucy was a fake. Turned out she was a chimp.
Hmmm. Turtles go back 200 million years. Why are they still here?
“Where did the 3 million year old Lucy and other hominids come from?”
I’ve always believed in an old universe, but I suspect there have been multiple creation events.