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Comment by PureTrust
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At best, all that the "transitional creature fossils" prove is that the Intelligent Designer created loads and loads of unique creatures, the majority of which have gone into extinction because of sin entering into the world through man's misuse of his freedom. At worst, the whole "transitional creature fossil" thing is a complete fabrication created by sinners who can't prove anything that happened "millions of years ago." If they could, they would be able to look into the future at least a day or two, so that they could become rich off the horse races, or the stock market, or the Forex, or at least "something," besides fabricating lies about fossils when they know that they really know nothing at all.


Comment by PureTrust
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Makes for a really neat science fiction story, though.


Comment by Anonymous
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This so called transitional species proves nothing, except that there were other species that had some things in commong with humans, just like current apes do.  So the stupid fossil had a hand with fingernails, so what?  Current apes can stand upright and be trained to do things that humans do.  It is another animal that went extinct.  We find thousands of dinosaur fossils that supposedly existed millions of years before humans, but we just can't seem to find EVEN ONE definate transitional, part human, species, that supposedly lived long after dinosaurs.  Wouldn't you think that their fossils would be just as plentiful, if not more plentiful, than the dinosaurs?  That's science for you.  


Comment by PureTrust
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The evolutionary scientists are having one great success, though. Their politics have pervaded our whole lifestyle. Many people have succumbed to their smooth talk which is funded by one-world business operations that benefit from the dumbing down of the common American.  


Comment by Anonymous
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Busy calling Intelligent Design ideas "ridiculous," Mr. Renzulli failed to disclose to readers that the scientific community's PR machine had horribly overstated the importance and meaning of "Ida." 

(Or maybe being an atheist evolutionist means never having to say you’re sorry.)

Chris Beard, the curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, responded to the unwarranted media splash.  Mr. Beard indicated "Ida" may or may not be a missing link at all, and certainly that "Ida" has practically nothing to do with neo-Darwinian evolution of humans.

Mr. Beard wrote in the magazine, New Scientist, on May 21, 2009:

Why Ida fossil is not the missing link

Unbridled hoopla attended the unveiling of a 47-million-year-old fossil primate skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on 19 May. Found by private collectors in 1983 in Messel, Germany, the press immediately hailed the specimen as a "missing link" and even the "eighth wonder of the world."

Google's homepage evolved, incorporating an image of the new fossil – nicknamed Ida – into the company's logo. Now that the first description of the fossil has been published, the task of sifting through the massive public relations campaign to understand the true significance of the new fossil can begin.

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What does Ida's anatomy tell us about her place on the family tree of humans and other primates? The fact that she retains primitive features that commonly occurred among all early primates, such as simple incisors rather than a full-fledged toothcomb, indicates that Ida belongs somewhere closer to the base of the tree than living lemurs do.

But this does not necessarily make Ida a close relative of anthropoids – the group of primates that includes monkeys, apes – and humans. In order to establish that connection, Ida would have to have anthropoid-like features that evolved after anthropoids split away from lemurs and other early primates. Here, alas, Ida fails miserably.

So, Ida is not a "missing link" – at least not between anthropoids and more primitive primates. Further study may reveal her to be a missing link between other species of Eocene adapiforms, but this hardly solidifies her status as the "eighth wonder of the world."

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