Comments on: Ida’s Namers Blew It

By: DWA

DWA — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:23:34 +0000

Well, this should be a reminder to all of us – as if many of us even needed one – that there is science, which is virtually a perfect discipline.

And then there are scientists, who get hyped and excited and like publicity and coincidences and screaming “Happy Birthday!” just like the rest of us.

Darwinius happibirthdiensis! Darwinius heureuxanniversaris!

What the heck, toss him a goody bag, eh? Anything else fun and relevant being discovered this year?

It is a way cool find. Hard to call it a missing link, though, when you don’t even have a chain. Most of the ‘chain’ from proto-primates to us – practically all of it – is speculation. Intelligent speculation, to which considerable evidence seems to lend credence. But speculation. The number of times we’ve had to cobble changes and graftings and turnbuckles and cables to the family tree should speak to that, all by itself.

And to speculate like this, out of the box, is…well, it’s not science.

But it is, we should remember, scientists. Who are only human.

Don’t worry, fellas (and fems). Those of us who root for cryptids AND cool fossil finds can be very, VERY patient when we need to be.

By: ukulelemike

ukulelemike — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:28:15 +0000

This whole thing cracks me up-why is there to be considered any evicende of this being definitely in a line of humanity? No, this was merely a hype put together to ‘honor’ Darwin-after all, doesn’t anyone else seem it is awfully coinicdental to find this ‘missing link’ just in time for Darwin’s birthday? Evolutionists seem to often make incrdible finds just in time for certain deadlines. How is it that no one can accept that it was just a monkey-no more, no less? A different monkey, sure, but a monkey. If we followed the same line of reasoning that the evolutionists follow in man’s ‘ascent’, we could do it with animals alive now: we have little monkeys, and apes of varying sizes, and we have men of different facial structures and colors alive now, which, if we buried all the bones and found them a thousand years later, people would use, like today, to prove evolution. There are, currently in the human race, variances as vast in bone structures, due to racial and nutritional differences, which are as extreme as those found in the various ‘ancient’ proto-humans claimed to be from different evolutionary epochs. It’s all smoke and mirrors with no evidence.

By: Bob K.

Bob K. — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:15:11 +0000

You nailed it, HoosierHunter.

By: HOOSIERHUNTER

HOOSIERHUNTER — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:47:38 +0000

Ah yes, yet another missing link. How about missinglinkusonemoretimeus ohitsjustanothermonkeyus sorryaboutthatus

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:59:51 +0000

DWA:

Don’t you just love bureaucracy?

Red Tape: The Other White Meat!!!

By: DWA

DWA — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:50:29 +0000

Ida, Schmida. Sheesh.

Hmmmmm. Idae schmidaensis.

How ’bout…oh, this has gotta be it…Darwinius beatscreationismadae.

Or Monkeysae lemurmaybeis.

I’ll keep working on it.

Well, at least they didn’t insist that Gutenberg had to set the type. Or that the Pope had to approve. Sometimes one takes progress where one can.

Didn’t it become official when someone hit “Print”? Just asking.