[Abathar]

Of course we make mistakes, they hold us to much higher standards than their ultimate answer - “Because He did it that way.”

[UCANSEE2]

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.

[metmom]

Of course we make mistakes, they hold us to much higher standards than their ultimate answer - “Because He did it that way.”

Well? Who was initially right about the fossil?

The creationists who didn't believe that it would prove anything about human evolution? Or the *scientists* who wrongly proclaimed it with great fanfare as evidence of primate evolution, just like the other false alarms before it, like Lucy, the Hobbit fossil, etc.

*Mistake* in classifying fossils number 1,938,283,498,392.

[metmom]

Of course we make mistakes, they hold us to much higher standards than their ultimate answer - “Because He did it that way.”

If *scientists* actually performed to those standards, this sort of *mistake* wouldn't be occurring nearly so often.