[jessduntno]

Ida’s unusual state of preservation provides a wealth of data about one of the possible branches that led to higher primates such as apes and man, said Tim White of the University of California at Berkeley, but it doesn’t decide the issue about which branch — and it doesn’t constitute any kind of a missing link. “The missing link does not exist,” he said. “Evolution is a tree, not a chain.”

Ahhhh...the precison of the scientist...”Science is fancy guesswork, not science.”

[bronxville]

book mark

[NYer]

Some of us are old enough to remember the media hype over the discovery of “Lucy”. That is the popular name given to the famous fossil skeleton found in 1974 in Ethiopia by American anthropologist Donald Johanson. At the time, Lucy was proclaimed to be the “missing link”. The media never tire of celebrating scientific discoveries.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Definitely an interesting find, though time will tell if it’s actually important. Had this been an advanced primate - somewhere between chimps and humans - and not a squirrel-sized lemur thing with a long tail I’d attach more significance to it.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"a nearly intact fossilized skeleton of a squirrel-sized, 47-million-year-old primate"

This should provide much fun for liberal Darwinists to waste endless amounts of time drawing and designing imaginary charts and models to justify their fornication and adolescent masturbatory fantasies. The drive behind it is sexual and adolescent anxiety to be liberated from conventional morality. The obsessive-compulsives among them have the greatest need for plotting the prehistoric fossil graphs for this rationalization. It's a very strange phenomenon since no fossil could ever prove the non-existence of God, the apparent goal of these obsessions. As the dorks' quest for the missing link to justify a world without God or morality rages on, in the end, it's just a darn monkey skeleton.

[cranked]

More Contrived Science ping.

[Varda]

“idea advanced by some evolutionists, including, Chapman said, Kenneth Miller: “Humans came about through an unguided process that did not have us in mind.””

Kenneth Miller doesn’t advocate that. Chapman is in a position to know what Miller advocates (theistic evolution). Lies don’t become his cause.