Darwinius Masillae

[pokemaughan]

I know this was bound to come up at one point or another. So here's a topic to discuss it.

I'm sure by now everyone and their mother has heard about the new 'missing link' for evolution. (Link)

Here's a snip--------------------------------------------

May 19, 2009- Meet "Ida," the small "missing link" found in Germany that's created a big media splash and will likely continue to make waves among those who study human origins.

In a new book, documentary, and promotional Web site, paleontologist Jorn Hurum, who led the team that analyzed the 47-million-year-old fossil seen above, suggests Ida is a critical missing-link species in primate evolution (interactive guide to human evolution from National Geographic magazine).

(Among the team members was University of Michigan paleontologist Philip Gingerich, a member of the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society, which owns National Geographic News.)

The fossil, he says, bridges the evolutionary split between higher primates such as monkeys, apes, and humans and their more distant relatives such as lemurs.

"This is the first link to all humans," Hurum, of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway, said in a statement. Ida represents "the closest thing we can get to a direct ancestor."

Ida, properly known as Darwinius masillae, has a unique anatomy. The lemur-like skeleton features primate-like characteristics, including grasping hands, opposable thumbs, clawless digits with nails, and relatively short limbs.

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So there you go. Darwinists rejoice all around, but to me it just seems like they found some animal and are desperate for their transitional fossils. A preconception may have heavily influenced their classification of their finds. If they're actively looking for transitional fossils to disprove God and prove evolution, it's no surprise that they'd call this lemur a half-ape-half-man.

What do y'all think?

[nebula]

In another thread, I posted a counter-argument to that from this article:

http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/...19/1937065.aspx

[pokemaughan]

In another thread, I posted a counter-argument to that from this article:

http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/...19/1937065.aspx

Hah, ya. I laughed a good bit over this thing. Took something seemingly small and blew it waaAAAAAAaaay up. Even Google is promoting it with their logo. It's pretty silly...

[nebula]

Oh brother!

Well, like I said in the other thread, I'm curious as to how they are going to explain a "missing link" in human evolution came from Germany!

[Trusting Jesus]

It is a joke -- the evolutionists are grasping at straws and trying to make it sound scientific and a fact. Here's another link rebutting it:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2...da-missing-link

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Nathele

[MorningGlory]

What do y'all think?

I think it's really a stretch to believe this little animal is the missing link between ape and human. It isn't and they will never find it. There IS no link.

[pokemaughan]

There are numerous well known transitional fossils already. No one is desperate for more but it is nice to add another to what is already a very long list.

Uh huh.

[MorningGlory]

So there you go. Darwinists rejoice all around, but to me it just seems like they found some animal and are desperate for their transitional fossils.

What do y'all think?

There are numerous well known transitional fossils already. No one is desperate for more but it is nice to add another to what is already a very long list.

I'm just not getting the 'transitional' part. Sorry, it doesn't make sense.

[pokemaughan]

I'm just not getting the 'transitional' part. Sorry, it doesn't make sense.

You see, they take this old set of bones... and they take this new set of bones... then they take some bones that kinda look similar to the two... and they put a fat sticker on it that says "100% CORRECT PROOF FOR EVOLUTION!!!!!"

[MorningGlory]

I'm just not getting the 'transitional' part. Sorry, it doesn't make sense.

You see, they take this old set of bones... and they take this new set of bones... then they take some bones that kinda look similar to the two... and they put a fat sticker on it that says "100% CORRECT PROOF FOR EVOLUTION!!!!!"

I KNEW IT! It's those people in the bone factories making all this stuff appear to be something important when it's actually just a crushed little lemur that, for some reason, was in Germany when the accident happened.