Scientists Hail Stunning Fossil
May 19th, 2009Via: BBC:
The beautifully preserved remains of a 47-million-year-old, lemur-like creature have been unveiled in the US.
The preservation is so good, it is possible to see the outline of its fur and even traces of its last meal.
The fossil, nicknamed Ida, is claimed to be a “missing link” between today’s higher primates – monkeys, apes and humans – and more distant relatives.
But some independent experts, awaiting an opportunity to see the new fossil, are sceptical of the claim.
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Why does GOD keep testing us like this?
Oh puh-leaze.
If there is yet another “missing link uncovered” in my lifetime to “explain” why humans are here. The book I bought at the airport last week ” The Twelfth Planet,” by Zecharia Sitchin,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin
makes more sense to me than leaping into a full blown human with a heart, intellect and brain than does the thinking that I have my ancestry in a furry dinosaur.
But that’s just me. Thinkin, thinkin, thinkin.
I’m neither pro nor con with any supernatural powers being responsible for lifes existence so we can first put any religious thoughts on the matter aside. That way what I have to say has nothing to do with God, gods, aliens or whatever. Just think about this dispassionately and logically.
Let me illustrate. Suppose I laid out in an empty field, logs, piles of iron ore, copper, silica, tar, you name it. All the essential building blocks of a home. Heck! I’ll even make it easier for you. I’ll take those raw materials and fashion them into precut lumber, nails, sheet rock, plastic wrapped wiring, shingles, windows, doors, fixtures, pipes, and neatly pre stack and stage them about the field ready for construction with building plans laid out. On top of that I’ll indefinitely hold off the elements from doing any harm to these materials. They’ll never rot nor rust or have to deal with any laws of thermodynamics. And to sweeten the deal I’ll concede an infinite amount of TIME for this project to be completed. Sound fair so far? Now, tell me, given all of these concessions, how long will it take for all of these things to leap together and form a perfectly functional dwelling? I think you know full well the answer to that. Anyone who believes in evolutionary theory has to have as much “religious faith” in those ideas as any religionist.
The earth itself has produced many thousands of “perfectly functional dwellings” – they’re called caves.