Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:04:26 PM
This past May, a fossil nicknamed Ida was loudly heralded by the neo-science community as the “missing link” that supposedly proved ape-to-human evolution. Now Ida has been surreptitiously swept under the rug with significantly less fanfare than when she was initially hailed as the missing link. Here she is...
After having further analyzed the data published on Ida, which was scientifically named Darwinius in honor of the late British naturalist, more paleontologists are now expressing their doubts about the fossil’s relevance. In fact, Richard Kay of Duke University told Scientific American that creatures like Ida “are decidedly not in the direct line leading to living monkeys, apes and humans.”
Certain traits of Ida’s lower jaw were hyped as being critical indicators of her transitional status. However, her partially fused lower jaw structure also appears sporadically in various other mammals. This distribution flies in the face of Darwinian “tree of life” reconstructions, but it follows a mosaic pattern of shared characteristics among disparate forms that is consistent with creation science predictions of design forms and methods from a common designer rather than evidence of common descent.
Ida’s jaw does not show evolutionary development, and the fossilized creature’s total failure to provide any “transitional” evidence caused Robert Martin of the Field Museum in Chicago to conclude, “I am utterly convinced that Darwinius has nothing whatsoever to do with the origin of higher primates.”
These statements are quite the opposite in both volume and content from the bold and loud proclamations of Ida’s significance upon her “unveiling.” Unfortunately, few outside of paleontological academia will hear these expert voices, only having been exposed to the local evening news or to the Google web search site, both of which featured Ida in her false loftiness, and neither of which now feature Ida in her true guise of a well-preserved, but otherwise inconsequential, extinct lemur.