Talk of the size is irrelevant and designed to give the impression to the impressionable of such a differing size with humans that it could not be a human precursor.....40+ million years ago. Make no mention that htis is not SUPPOSED to be the size of a human It's a false argument. Humans have not always been the size we are now either. Human skulls have undergone major changes over millions of years. Homo habilis was quite different than Man of today.
Here's a misdirection...a strawman:
The fossil does not resemble a human skeleton.
Nobody claimed it looked anything like a human....burn the strawman. They are using this as evidence of "a" "link" between early primitive primates that no longer exist....and simians and prosimians that lived later....not with Man.
The fossil was found in two parts by amateur fossil hunters in 1983. It eventually made its way through fossil dealers to the research team.
An irrelevant piece of information. Who cares who found it, when it was found, and that it was in 2 pieces after millions of years and an amateur excavation?
Here's a lie:
Yet lemurs today have opposable thumbs (like all primates).
Not all primates have opposable thumbs, that is a bold-faced lie. Lemurs do as do "most" simians (most, not all).....and "some" prosimians (some, not all). Ida is merely being touted to be an example of the evolutionary bridge between early primates that no longer exist....and later living prosimians and simians, who no longer exist as they did.
Unlike today’s lemurs (as far as scientists know), Ida lacks...
That would be relevant if Ida were....a lemur. Ida is not a lemur. Ida is lemur-LIKE.
These are minor differences easily explained by variation within a kind.
Well, THAT's a nice claim to have in your pocket...almost as good as "all evidence is evidence of Creation." Any alterations in physical appearance can now be lumped into this generic nonsense claim. Lemurs having regular teeth.....lemurs having monkey teeth....all easily explained by "variation within a kind".......except that Ida....IS NOT A LEMUR. Ida is something that no longer lives on the Earth.
Of course none of this matters to someone that believes Man walked with T-rex.
And to one that lacks the understanding of that fact, I can only ask "What fellowship hath Light with Darkness?
Translating that down to your language WTF are you doing here?