bel, You mentioned the fossil evidence. I suggest that you read the
following book if you really want to learn about the fossil evidence:
"EVOLUTION: THE FOSSILS STILL SAY NO" by Dr. Duane Gish


I'll give you a much shorter reference, Jason. Look at:

http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/gish.html

Here's a sample quote:

Lucy is a standard component of Gish's debates. He has been repeating
the same story about her since at least 1981. Gish's motive is to show
that Lucy was not a transitional form between humans and apes, but just
an ape that could not walk upright. After discussing Lucy briefly, he
cites scientist Lord Solly Zuckerman, who Gish claims did a thorough and
careful 15-year study of the Australopithecines with the conclusion that
these creatures did not walk upright (see Debates-Doolittle 1981, Park
1982, Thwaites 1988, Parrish 1991; see also Gish 1982). Gish clearly
implies that Zuckerman examined the Lucy skeleton itself. However, Gish
has repeatedly been told in many debates over the years that this is
false (see Debates-Brace 1982, Miller 1982, Saladin 1988, Thwaites
1988). Zuckerman never saw Lucy, and his conclusion on
Australopithecines was made at least three years before Lucy was even
discovered (Zuckerman 1970). Furthermore, Zuckerman didn't work with any
of the original Australopithecine fossils. His conclusions were based on
a cast of one half of the pelvis of a single specimen.

In 1982, at a high school in Lion's Head, Ontario, Gish debated Chris
McGowan, a zoologist from the University of Toronto. A member of the
audience, Jay Ingram, (former host of the national Canadian radio
program Quirks and Quarks), heard Gish's Lucy story, which clearly
implied that Zuckerman had studied Lucy herself and concluded that she,
along with other Australopithecines, did not walk upright. Knowing this
was not true, Ingram asked Gish in the question and answer period why he
had misled the audience. A show of hands indicated that about 90% of the
audience had assumed from what Gish had said that Zuckerman had studied
Lucy. Gish became very upset, lost his temper, and railed that he wasn't
responsible for people misinterpreting his remarks (Ingram 1992).