"missing link" found
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"missing link" found
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...link-found.html
interesting read, but still nothing concrete....
more of a misnomer than anything, IMO.
interesting read, but still nothing concrete....
more of a misnomer than anything, IMO.
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what that article doesnt say is that was actually dug up in the mid 80's and its been sitting in someone's personal collection. Only since 2006 have they started to analyze it, theyve barely begun to unveil it and theres already a book deal and a documentary in the works. Its revealing is a very odd sort of publicity campaign, something ive never seen before on this sort of level for a scientific discovery.
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But there's a big gap in the fossil record from this time period, Richmond noted. Researchers are unsure when and where the primate group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans split from the other group of primates that includes lemurs.
"[Ida] is one of the important branching points on the evolutionary tree," Richmond said, "but it's not the only branching point."
"[Ida] is one of the important branching points on the evolutionary tree," Richmond said, "but it's not the only branching point."
Interesting thing is that I believe in God but nothing says that we weren't designed in an evolutionary way (started with basic building blocks and combined them in more and more complex/developed ways). If you think about it, it makes sense.
That said, if they're looking for the missing link, they have a problem. Genesis 3 explains it clearly enough...
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Originally Posted by omgitsoop,May 21 2009, 04:15 AM
what that article doesnt say is that was actually dug up in the mid 80's and its been sitting in someone's personal collection. Only since 2006 have they started to analyze it, theyve barely begun to unveil it and theres already a book deal and a documentary in the works. Its revealing is a very odd sort of publicity campaign, something ive never seen before on this sort of level for a scientific discovery.
I am not a paleontologist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, and it looks just like any other lemur skeleton to me. If I were to guess about a missing link I would say Joey Buttafuoco.
