Unfortunately, the rush to declare a fossil a missing link happens with regularity. They didn’t bother to mention that modern lemurs also have opposable thumbs and nails instead of claws, so those features have no evolutionary significance whatsoever. The news reports, in their elation over a possible missing link, also made a big deal of the fact that Ida has opposable thumbs and nails instead of claws, which are human characteristics. In fact, all of that happened in 2009-a lot of hype over one dead lemur with some missing body parts. And eager Darwin devotees could claim victory once and for all. Headlines could proclaim that we’ve finally found the missing link. But what is more sensational to report-the unearthing of a dead deformed lemur or the discovery of an exciting new species that fits somewhere within the presumed family tree of human evolution? If we go with the latter instead of the former, people could proclaim Ida as “the eighth wonder of the world.” Google could incorporate Ida’s image into their logo for a day. They suffer from a condition known as phocomelia, which can either be inherited or caused by prenatal exposure to the drug thalidomide.Ĭould it be that the fossilized lemur, instead of being a missing link, suffered from a deformity? It is entirely possible.
The fact is there are people born with hands but no arms, and they are all still 100 percent human. What happens if we find a man born with hands but no arms, so that his hands are attached directly to his shoulders? Should we believe that he represents a missing link between a human and a fish? That would be the same rationale used by Darwinists concerning Ida. This is not the only possible interpretation of the data, as we shall see, but it suits Darwinists just fine. Darwinists excitedly interpreted this to mean that Ida must have been an evolutionary transition from prosimian (the group to which lemurs belong) to monkey, since monkeys lack grooming-claws. This fossil, also known as “Ida” (after the daughter of the Norwegian scientist who led the research team), looks exactly like a modern lemur except that she lacks the grooming-claw common to modern lemurs. News organizations are then more than happy to publish sensational headlines, which are good for business.ĭarwinius massillae, for example, was presented as a missing link. Eager as Darwinists are to find the ever-missing missing link, they tend to zero in on any superficial aspect of a fossil that could possibly be interpreted as a mark of evolutionary transition from monkey to ape or ape to human.
Plenty of fossilized remains of prosimians, monkeys, apes, and humans have turned up, but no intermediate fossil between ape and man. In actual fact, no missing link has ever been found-it’s still missing. Every so often, news outlets irresponsibly report the sensational claim that someone somewhere has finally found “the missing link.” Such reports give people the false impression that science has, at long last, discovered the fossilized remains of a half-human, half-ape creature, thereby proving Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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