[UCANSEE2]

Actually, the thrust of the articles (and arguments) about IDA is not that they merely made a mistake.

It is that they took the finding of just ONE set of fossilized remains, and then went crazy setting up websites, magazine articles, etc., (all in very short period of time) all proclaiming this find WAS the TRUE ANCESTOR of man.

I.E. In their haste to make this claim, they didn’t find it pertinent to spend any time trying to actually find any real proof, or even give the scientific community time to debate the issue.

[Abathar]

I will grant that the find was sensationalized. Those who jump to any conclusion like this that fast are not acting professional imho, and usually get well deserved egg on their face for it.

[SJSAMPLE]

This is the fault of the ego of man, not an invalidation of a theory.

This can be seen in ANY OTHER scientific discipline and community. They’re constantly re-evaluating the true age of this universe (hint: They’re pretty sure it’s greater than 6000 years). Hawking had to revise his cosmological constant and admit that he was wrong. Even Newton was wrong in his observations and calculations (but NOT his theory)>

Nobody wants to delay while other people publish from their work. That’s a fault of MAN, not science.

[GodGunsGuts]

Yes, it was greed, corruption and a rush to judgment, further amplified by the evo-religious expectations of the Temple of Darwin faithful.

[DManA]

or even give the scientific community time to debate the issue.

The time reserved for criticism for any given theory is unlimited (except global warming but that is politics not science). There is almost as much prestige in disproving a theory as there is in coming up with one.

[tpanther]

Actually, the thrust of the articles (and arguments) about IDA is not that they merely made a mistake.

It is that they took the finding of just ONE set of fossilized remains, and then went crazy setting up websites, magazine articles, etc., (all in very short period of time) all proclaiming this find WAS the TRUE ANCESTOR of man.

I.E. In their haste to make this claim, they didn’t find it pertinent to spend any time trying to actually find any real proof, or even give the scientific community time to debate the issue.

Very astute analysis, telling still is the fact that normal well adjusted people instantly recognize your summarizations, while the liberals steeply indoctrinated in a godless cult are simply incapable of such recognition.