[BlueStateBlues]

I enjoyed Harvard scientist J. Lambert Fitzgerald’s quote about the Ida discovery: “Those bones those bones those dry bones, gonna’ get up and walk around”.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

2 more missing links.

[dangus]

More like a link between primates and other mammals. Nothing to see, here, just the Idiot Channel trying to make some more $$ on ridiculous hype.

(It’s not even a monkey!)

[dangus]

>> He compared Ida to “an unknown Rembrandt,” explaining that forward-facing eyes, opposing big toes; short face and other features make her part of the anthropoid branch of mammals that include monkeys, apes and humans. <<

Crap! How come no-one told me everybody else has opposing big toes? No wonder the girl at PayLess kept looking at me funny. (I thought it was just the hole in my sock.)

[Publius6961]

Fortunately, the American Public, (aka "… news made to order for hysterical, insecure, ignorant, sheeplike masses, a/k/a “the American people.”
Florence King, Dec 7, 1998.) with the scientific and technical knowledge of a rutabaga, will just eat this up.
In between episiodes of reality shows, basketball games and "can you rap?" TV specials.

Just saying.

[FourtySeven]

This caught my eye:

"What was wrong with all the other fossils over the years? Why get so excited with this one?" Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis and founder of the Creation Museum asked.

So let's get this straight. Those who reject evolutionary theory always complain, "There aren't enough transition fossils to 'prove' evolution", but yet when one comes along, the claim is, "What's wrong with all the other fossils; why get excited with this one?"?

What are you kidding me? Does no one but me see the double standard/goal post shifting here?

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

There appears to be plenty of hype surrounding this:

1) Virtually none of the short videos or online articles mention that this fossil was found 16 years ago. They all either make it sound like it was "just found," or else was found 2 years ago. Acknowledging a 16 year gap between discovery and publicity would lessen the aura around it, raising lots of obvious questions.

2) According to the WSJ, the current owners of the fossil are misusing the term "missing link" --

The discovery has little bearing on a separate paleontological debate centering on the identity of a common ancestor of chimps and humans, which could have lived about six million years ago and still hasn't been found. That gap in the evolution story is colloquially referred to as the "missing link" controversy. In reality, though, all gaps in the fossil record are technically "missing links" until filled in, and many scientists say the term is meaningless.

[SunkenCiv]

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