[GodGunsGuts]

==Ida was heralded as a link between pro-simians (lemurs and such) and simians.

As usual, you don’t have a firm enough grasp on the facts to know what your fellow Temple of Darwin fanatics were actually trying to claim:

‘A BEAUTIFULLY preserved 47-million-year-old fossil from a German shale pit is the “missing link”, the earliest ancestor of all living monkeys, apes and people...”This is the first link to all humans”, said paleontologist Jorn Hurum of Norway’s University of Oslo.’

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25515021-2702,00.html

Either that or you are trying to sweep this evo-scandal under the rug as well. Nice try (whatever it is you were trying to accomplish), but no dice!

[allmendream]

You, as usual, are too ignorant to even understand what you post.

An evolutionary link between lemurs and monkeys WOULD be the ancestor of all monkeys (and thus all apes, including humans); just as a evolutionary link between amphibians and reptiles would be the ancestor of all reptiles (and thus all dinosaurs and birds).

The “missing link” the paleontologist is talking about is a link between lemurs and monkeys; NOT between apes and humans.

The transitional fossil was never heralded as a link between apes and people; as your ignorant source maintains, it was heralded as a link between lemurs and monkeys.

As I said, saying this was “proof” of ape to human evolution is as ignorant and/or dishonest as claiming a transition between amphibians and reptiles was “proof” that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

Apparently you are too ignorant to understand the distinction between the two, I mean heck, only a few million years separated the two events.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Bwaaaaaaahahahahaha....you forgot to read your own "evidence"...

A BEAUTIFULLY preserved 47-million-year-old fossil from a German shale pit is the “missing link”, the earliest ancestor of all living monkeys, apes and people

How EXACTLY does that mean that "Ida is the missing link between apes and humans"? Speaky englis?

Hint: the ancseter OF ALL primates.....a link between "primates" and "not primates." Selective quoting....cute. Using the words of a reporter....super-cute. How about the words of THE ACTUAL RESEARCHERS?