Seems to me that you are making a much bigger deal of Ardi than the evolution crowd is.
You make a lot of stew from a single oyster.
Is that why I’m seeing Temple of Darwin television commercials advertising various upcoming specials on “Ardi” every single night of the week?
Dammit, now I’m REALLY hungry
In the previous posting on Ardi (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2353588/posts?page=77#77)I mentioned that the line art drawing of the skeletal structure of the remains seemed inconsistent with a constant biped. The article notes that there are scientists examining the remains and are coming up with the same criticisms. The author had a valid discussion and should have stuck to that instead of some of her(?) sneering editorializing. She (?) is correct that the contrary interpretations are not being well reported in the media. As long as the scientific community itself is paying attention the media doesn’t matter that much. Scientists typically don’t rely on sensationalized headlines to guide their opinions.
Oh brother! Ardi was just introduced as the "missing link" and you are already ragging on the ID's? He will supposedly rewrite history blah, blah, blah. Remember the "missing link" found a few months back that was a Lemur monkey"? They had a special program on National Geographic about the time they decided it was just an extinct Lemur monkey.
These "so called" scientists take a few broken bones and let a cartoon artist draw a picture of some ape looking creature with fur they don't even know if he had any, and the evo's get a woodie. Schools all across the country have to scrap their textbooks, and before they are even printed, there is a "new" discovery that will turn history on it's head. Evo had become the biggest scam in history. Lucy has been proven to be a scam, and they still talk about her like it was real. The bones were found scattered over a mile area and they can't even prove that it was from the same animal. Most of these "missing links" bones can fit in a shoe box and the evo's swear that they can rebuild a whole skeleton from a pig's tooth.
As far as GGG making a big deal, Re read the title of the piece.
"Artificially Reconstructed “Ardi” Overturns Prevailing Evolutionary Hypotheses of Human Evolution". "Overturn" is a pretty stiff word. I choose to concentrate on "Artificially Reconstructed".
[[Seems to me that you are making a much bigger deal of Ardi than the evolution crowd is.]]
Apparently you haven’t read the ‘stunning news’ in thousands of publications and blogs about Ardi? And our kids will be taught that Ardi was a ‘common ancestor’ DESPITE the FACT that massive digital ‘reconstruction’ had to happen in order to come up with a ‘common ancestor’-