[ETL]

“Here is some context for the age of the new primate fossil: Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) first emerged about 200,000 years ago, but early humans such as Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus anamensis reach back 3 million to 4 million years ago or even earlier. Humans are thought to have split off from a group that includes chimpanzees and gorillas about 6 million years ago.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30826552/

[Star Traveler]

The only “missing link” that anyone is going to find (of those who are out looking for it...) — is the missing link in one of their own brain’s synapses... LOL...

[ETL]

That excerpt I posted was from the same article posted at top.

[svcw]

Ok, I am not getting this.
A 47 million year old lemur fossil is the missing link, then why are there still lemurs?

[count-your-change]

OH right. Another missing link. But a link from what to what? Doesn’t matter, as long as it’s been found a place will be made for it along the Highway of Hype.

[kittymyrib]

My ancestors didn’t look like iguanas. God is laughing at our science gurus.

[Seruzawa]

We need a missing link and dang it we are going to keep looking until we invent.... er uh, find one.

[conservativegramma]

Just to keep this in perspective, The U.K. Guardian reports:

"However, in the paper published in PLoS ONE from the Public Library of Science on the fossil he is more circumspect. "Darwinius masillae is important in being exceptionally well-preserved and providing a much more complete understanding of the paleobiology of an Eocene primate than was available in the past," the authors wrote.

"[The species] could represent a stem group from which later anthropoid primates evolved [the line leading to humans], but we are not advocating this here."

The paper's scientific reviewers asked that they tone down their original claims that the fossil was on the human evolutionary line."

So in other words....the media has overblown this story as usual in their zeal to prove evolution.

The response by creationists.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I thought it was funny they called it a 47-million-year-old HUMAN ancestor, and then claimed that humans have only been around a few million years.

All my ancestors were humans. It’s what the word means. Nobody, even believers in evolution, claim that one-celled organisms are their great-great-great-great-grandparents.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

A “Made for TV” fossil!
Book released simultaneously!

That’s science all righty!

TV show will be peer reviewed...

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

• History Channel Announces "Global Event" For May 25th...
• "Missing Link" Primate Likely To Stir Debate

from the cr/evo "debate":

• Some scientists say Ida is the missing link
• Ho-Hum, Another Human Missing Link
  (Temple of Darwin in full religious revival mode)
• Ida: the Missing Link at Last?
  (the Creationist Interpretation)
• 'Missing Link' Ida Is Just Media Hype