Posted on 05/20/2009 8:07:15 AM PDT by lakeprincess
"This is an incredible piece of hype to popularize a movie and a book. It's hard to believe that this story took off, but the media picked up on very emotional claims about the 'missing link.' It's created good publicity," said Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis and founder of the Creation Museum.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The desperate movement to kill religion in America marches on...
I did have an uncle that kind of looked like that . . . except his tail was longer.
It’s a monkey.
The conclusions by some of these so-called “Scientists” are embarrassing.
I’m not buying it. I still believe that liberal Democrats are the real “missing links.” Half ape, half human.
If you set aside all the hype and bickering over creationism, this is a very interesting story. Poor little Ida. A short, painful life and now instead of being studied for what she can teach us, she becomes the center of a pointless argument in which no side is going to convince or even sway the other.
“Ida, whose formal name is Darwinius Masillae...”
Or, as GGG will no doubt dub her: Darwoodius Fancifullious Mythillae.
Has Brian Thomas, MS* weighed in yet?
I thought it looked like a cat. Wish they would have gone into more detail on the skull formation and the relative size of her brain.
Some network, I think Discovery Channel, is doing a special on this. It has all the hallmarks of the global warming ‘debate’. After this special is aired, the theory that this is ‘the’ missing link will become a settled fact.
It seems like a well thought out assault, to paint non believers in evolution as irrational mystics, who are no different than those who conducted the salem witch trials.
I am young enough to have been taught evolution as ‘fact’ my whole life. I have never been taught to oppose it, by either my parents or church...yet still it doesn’t pass the smell test for me. Just like global warming, it is part of a malicious alliance of researchers needing something to research and fund, media hype, and feeble minded people (many in the education field) who eat up junk science.
I would be happy to believe in the ‘theory’ of evolution...but first somebody has to prove the theory.
Ida? Ida Thomas? Helen’s sister?
Not an ape. Is the frenzy about this going to end up raising out taxes?
The fact we can identify it 47 million years later showed the species had not evolved into anything doesn’t it.
It’s a fossil which begins to fill in the gap between the lemurs and the primates. It’s an incredible find, and it does show features intermediate to the monkeys and the lemurs.
As usual, the press doesn’t get the details right; I am getting through the paper on the Public Library of Science to see what actually was found.
Such a find doesn’t prove or disprove the existence of God, and it definitely doesn’t prove the impossibility of a Resurrection of Christ!
This passes the smell test. /sarc
Half? ;-)
Looks like road kill.
I still say Ida is just the result of raising a child in a very strict environment, that adheres to 100% of the Democrat ideology. ;-)
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