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Some scientists say Ida is the missing link
The Washington Times ^ | 3/20/09 | Jennifer Harper

Posted on 05/20/2009 8:07:15 AM PDT by lakeprincess

"This is an incredible piece of hype to popularize a movie and a book. It's hard to believe that this story took off, but the media picked up on very emotional claims about the 'missing link.' It's created good publicity," said Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis and founder of the Creation Museum.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: afradapis; creationists; darwiniusmasillae; fossil; godsgravesglyphs; ida; longicristatus; science
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1 posted on 05/20/2009 8:07:15 AM PDT by lakeprincess
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To: lakeprincess

The desperate movement to kill religion in America marches on...


2 posted on 05/20/2009 8:08:52 AM PDT by jessduntno (July 4th, 2009. Washington DC. Gadsden Flags. Be There.)
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To: lakeprincess

I did have an uncle that kind of looked like that . . . except his tail was longer.


3 posted on 05/20/2009 8:09:01 AM PDT by Juan Medén
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To: lakeprincess

It’s a monkey.


4 posted on 05/20/2009 8:09:02 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: lakeprincess

The conclusions by some of these so-called “Scientists” are embarrassing.


5 posted on 05/20/2009 8:09:56 AM PDT by lormand ("Janet Napolitano should resign or be fired." - Congressman John Carter - My Congresscritter)
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To: lakeprincess
Darwinists just Love monkeys.
6 posted on 05/20/2009 8:10:31 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR. ....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: lakeprincess

I’m not buying it. I still believe that liberal Democrats are the real “missing links.” Half ape, half human.


7 posted on 05/20/2009 8:11:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can't build a "wind farm" without "Big Oil's" petroleum products.)
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To: lakeprincess

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.


8 posted on 05/20/2009 8:12:46 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: lakeprincess

“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?


9 posted on 05/20/2009 8:12:50 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: massgopguy

I thought it looked like a cat. Wish they would have gone into more detail on the skull formation and the relative size of her brain.


10 posted on 05/20/2009 8:14:22 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: lakeprincess

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.


11 posted on 05/20/2009 8:17:36 AM PDT by lacrew (Axe not what your teleprompter can do for you....)
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To: lakeprincess

Ida? Ida Thomas? Helen’s sister?


12 posted on 05/20/2009 8:19:35 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: massgopguy
It’s a monkey

Not an ape. Is the frenzy about this going to end up raising out taxes?

13 posted on 05/20/2009 8:20:37 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: lakeprincess

The fact we can identify it 47 million years later showed the species had not evolved into anything doesn’t it.


14 posted on 05/20/2009 8:21:03 AM PDT by edcoil (IF CA rolls pollution standards back to 1990 levels, lets roll CA spending back as well.)
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To: massgopguy

It’s a fossil which begins to fill in the gap between the lemurs and the primates. It’s an incredible find, and it does show features intermediate to the monkeys and the lemurs.

As usual, the press doesn’t get the details right; I am getting through the paper on the Public Library of Science to see what actually was found.

Such a find doesn’t prove or disprove the existence of God, and it definitely doesn’t prove the impossibility of a Resurrection of Christ!


15 posted on 05/20/2009 8:21:15 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: LeonardFMason
Some scientists say Ida is the missing link

Should have named it Susan, as in Desperately Seeking Susan. We all know that shared similarities demonstrate descent unless they don't in which case they are called convergent evolution.
16 posted on 05/20/2009 8:22:44 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: lakeprincess
I read another article that said an international group of scientists studied this monkey IN SECRET for TWO YEARS! Not only that, the guy who found it in Germany found it in 1983 and decided to keep it for over 20 years before deciding to sell it.

This passes the smell test. /sarc

17 posted on 05/20/2009 8:23:09 AM PDT by 14erClimb (Third world hell hole status, here we come!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Half? ;-)


18 posted on 05/20/2009 8:23:15 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama is mentally a child of ten. Just remember that when he makes statements and issues policy.)
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To: lakeprincess

Looks like road kill.


19 posted on 05/20/2009 8:24:57 AM PDT by dragonblustar ("... and if you disagree with me, then you sir, are worse than Hitler!" - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: lakeprincess

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. ;-)


20 posted on 05/20/2009 8:25:01 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama is mentally a child of ten. Just remember that when he makes statements and issues policy.)
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