[Oshkalaboomboom]

Another Darwinian fraud, now there’s a surprise.

[freedumb2003]

>>Another Darwinian fraud, now there’s a surprise.<<

No, it was a mistake and was discovered using the processes science has put into place to catch such things. Theology OTOH has no such mechanisms.

The TToE is unaffected by the potential removal of this data point and continues to be the only Scientific Theory that properly explains the billions of physical data that describes how humans and other creatures arrived as the are at this point.

This is a triumph, not a disgrace.

[IronKros]

The other articles about this subject posted on FR quote other scientists who where shocked to learn Jørn Hurum had announced Ida was a distant relative to humans.

This story shows how a scientific find was hijacked by the whims of one man for glory. It also shows how science as a whole prevailed by denouncing the claim and moving the specimen to the correct place in the tree.