Back Pain is not from Evolution

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As stated here several times, many believers in particle-to-pachyderm evolution misrepresent biblical creationists in saying that we believe "GodDidIt" and scientific investigation is over. Not hardly! Creation scientists want to know how God did something, and how things work.

Meanwhile, evolutionists making such accusations are hypocritical. "It evolved" is a common explanation when empirical data are not available, and they appeal to evolution when something is not actually understood. Evolution is a science stopper — dangerously so in medical science. This is displayed in how they evosplain lower back pain.

Doctor examines woman's back, Pexels / Kaboompics
The pain can be blamed through dysteleology on an incompetent Creator, or evolutionary presuppositions about our origins. In stories about the unobserved distant past, our apelike ancestors decided to stop walking on all fours and became bipedal. No one knows why. But we were not adapted for that kind of locomotion, so lower back pain exists. The treatment is bed rest. Or it was.

Creationists disagreed with this story all along, and a new study tacitly vindicates them. Further, in most cases, bed rest is right out. Instead, unless the doctor insists otherwise, walking is the best treatment. After all, we were indeed designed to walk upright.
Secular scientists have long excused the epidemic of low back pain in Western society on evolution. One evolutionist, Michael Sims, made it a centerpiece of his discussion. In a chapter of his 2003 book Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, subtitled, “Two Legs Good and Bad, ” he discussed the advantages of bipedal walking, but asserted that one major problem resulting from the transition from quadrupedal to bipedal locomotion in humans was pain, especially back pain. Sims assumed that this transition actually occurred, and then made it central to his postulate about disadvantages in walking upright on two legs:

To read the article in its entirety, see "Ape Evolution Did Not Cause Back Pain in Humans." It's time for me to go for a walk in the woods and get some pictures.