Now that we have disproved their God, they can worship me. Have my press secretary come to me, it is time to unleash the delusion ..
The desperate movement to kill religion in America marches on...
I did have an uncle that kind of looked like that . . . except his tail was longer.
It’s a monkey.
The conclusions by some of these so-called “Scientists” are embarrassing.
I’m not buying it. I still believe that liberal Democrats are the real “missing links.” Half ape, half human.
If you set aside all the hype and bickering over creationism, this is a very interesting story. Poor little Ida. A short, painful life and now instead of being studied for what she can teach us, she becomes the center of a pointless argument in which no side is going to convince or even sway the other.
“Ida, whose formal name is Darwinius Masillae...”
Or, as GGG will no doubt dub her: Darwoodius Fancifullious Mythillae.
Has Brian Thomas, MS* weighed in yet?
Some network, I think Discovery Channel, is doing a special on this. It has all the hallmarks of the global warming ‘debate’. After this special is aired, the theory that this is ‘the’ missing link will become a settled fact.
It seems like a well thought out assault, to paint non believers in evolution as irrational mystics, who are no different than those who conducted the salem witch trials.
I am young enough to have been taught evolution as ‘fact’ my whole life. I have never been taught to oppose it, by either my parents or church...yet still it doesn’t pass the smell test for me. Just like global warming, it is part of a malicious alliance of researchers needing something to research and fund, media hype, and feeble minded people (many in the education field) who eat up junk science.
I would be happy to believe in the ‘theory’ of evolution...but first somebody has to prove the theory.
Ida? Ida Thomas? Helen’s sister?
The fact we can identify it 47 million years later showed the species had not evolved into anything doesn’t it.
This passes the smell test. /sarc
Looks like road kill.
I still say Ida is just the result of raising a child in a very strict environment, that adheres to 100% of the Democrat ideology. ;-)
It is fascinating to see a previously unknown creature discovered. However, to think that any amount of fossils prove evolution is an error in logic. The discovery proves only what we know already: that the animal species have similarities, and that some species are more like some others. This does not prove that one complex species can evolve into another distinct species any more than an abundance of very similar Fords and Chevys in the junkyard prove that Fords evolve into Chevys.
Heck, I’d say Obama has a better chance of being the “missing link” than a baby monkey!
How STUPID can people get?
Don’t answer me.
I already know by those that want to believe this nonsense.
You see Drudge yesterday? He labeled the rock skelaton “The Eight Wonder Of The World” and hyped it as much as anyone. And how about Google’s logo for today, on the browse page? Tomorrow they’ll probably put Ida on the quarter, give it a postage stamp, and put up a monument in Central Park.
Ida gettin’ out a here.
Farewell, FR, you have officially jumped the shark.