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This is easy for the YEC crowd to dismiss:
— It's just a monkey, or maybe an ape, unrelated to the perfect creation of Man.
— Isotope dating (Carbon, potassium, cesium, etc) is inaccurate, so this was just another victim of Noah's Flood a few thousand years ago, but long after Adam and Eve.
— Stratigraphy is inaccurate, because all those millions of distinct layers of rock were all laid down by Noah's Flood in a few weeks.
— It was just a little girl with abnormal growth, like all other proto-human finds.
— It seems to be a member of the same sub-species as Lucy, another already-debunked missing link.
It is impossible to use modern reason against ancient dogma.