Actually, the thrust of the articles (and arguments) about IDA is not that they merely made a mistake.
It is that they took the finding of just ONE set of fossilized remains, and then went crazy setting up websites, magazine articles, etc., (all in very short period of time) all proclaiming this find WAS the TRUE ANCESTOR of man.
I.E. In their haste to make this claim, they didn’t find it pertinent to spend any time trying to actually find any real proof, or even give the scientific community time to debate the issue.
Very astute analysis, telling still is the fact that normal well adjusted people instantly recognize your summarizations, while the liberals steeply indoctrinated in a godless cult are simply incapable of such recognition.
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I think a better summarization is that GGG oversold what was afoot.
He trumpets that Darwinians hastened to sell another nonstarter “missing link” wholesale - but even ICR in its
early articles acknowledged that many paleontologists (presumably including Darwinians)didn’t buy what Hurum was
selling. A casual review of many of the articles at the time
expressed the same reservations that ICR - weeks later - noted as refutation. and “Mr. Dreamer”- sorry, Hurum dropped
enough vague/unqualified statements that led many other media to conclude “IDA-to-GGG!!”
So, is this evidence of a vast evo conspitacy, as contended
by GGG/metmom? only if you are intellectually dishonest enough to fail to note (to its credit, ICR was not) that IDA was promptly questioned (by many scientists)as being evidence of anything at all.
Yes, Sir Richard A. and many media types jumped on the bandwagon- so what? There’s a sucker born every minute...
I think Hurum bluffed his way to the proverbial 15 minutes of fame to justify his prior convincing of the Oslo Musuem to pay for IDA (reported asking price: $1M) AND fund 2 years of research!! I believe in Occam’s Razor: the simple answer is likely the correct one, and greed is a powerful motivator.
Noted...but greed can come in many different forms...and I still don’t remember seeing anyone tripping over themselves to discount claims made in Nat’l Geographic for instance.
Let’s face it...it wasn’t “oversold” whatsover by GGG or ICR...rather “exposed”...
Now I suppose you can make an argument about “over”-exposed...as anyone on that side of the aisle would tend to want! :)
But the fault clearly and unmistakenly lies with evos that jumped on the bandwagon too soon, too hastily and too arrogantly.
Better to drink the medicine, fess up and move on...it’ll probably all go away much quicker that way...IMO.