[skeptoid]

Nancy Dubuc of the History Channel that will be showing the film said Ida “promised to change everything that we thought we understood about the origins of human life”.

There's a 'money quote'!!

So many true believers out there who have unwittingly built their careers and wourldviews on the fantasy of the Grand Theory.

When 'proof' like Ida shows up, they are vindicated and so piously confident that they Do have the correct understanding of human origins.

But when it proves to be otherwise, after a little backtracking and rationalizing, they don't re-examine their beliefs, but forge ahead looking for another proof of Macro Evolution, confident that The Proof will actually be discovered. It only makes sense if you can link your livelyhood with your faith in evolution theory, and maintain faith and solidarity with the brethern.

[chuckles]

In the original story, they claimed the fossil was a Lemur-monkey. How can you be a 47 mill year old lemur and be anything other than a Lemur?

A "missing link" should have characteristics of at least two animals to try and claim "linkhood". It was plainly a Lemur. I didn't even get any of the so called excitement, other than they figured it to be old, An "old" cockroach is still a cockroach and an "old" monkey is still and old monkey. There are many old fossil's out there and none of them are connected to humans.

Now I'll wait for the hour long special on Discovery channel to explain their error. Maybe a few magazine covers? anything? anywhere? Other than FR of course. Millions have now been lied to, and a few thousand will have the truth. The lie will live on, as always, and when I say there is no missing link 10 years from now, some punk will say, "Wrong, you stupid backward moron!!"." Don't you watch the Discovery Channel?"