Missing Link - FOUND???

[KingGeno]

News is breaking all over on science websites and Drudge that they have found a 47 Million year old fossil of a Monkey. This could be the missing link between humans and apes.

Personally, if true, I can't wait to see what the religious nuts will say.

http://www.drudgereport.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/business/media/19fossil.html?hp

Are you a monkey?

[A.J.]

Are you a monkey?

I'm a Monkey..............Man.

[Furtherman]

47 Million year old fossil of a monkeylike creature .

Fixed.

And it's important that label is used, because the "religious nuts" as you say, love to use the statement that "I'm no monkey" or "I came from god, not monkeys", etc., whereas, notwithstanding their lack of education to begin with, isn't true.

We came from a common ancestor of ape and man. This ancestor was neither, but a separate species.

[KingGeno]

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2009/May/Week3/15284702.jpg

Lemur Monkey. It is a monkey, per all of the scientists.

[underdog]

Personally, if true, I can't wait to see what the religious nuts will say.

They'll figure out a way to explain it based on their book.

Or just say it was put there by the devil to confuse us.

[Earlshog]

47 million years later it's guarantee of a playoff vicotry in a game 7 finally came true...

[Melk]

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2009/May/Week3/15284702.jpg

Lemur Monkey. It is a monkey, per all of the scientists.
Yeah. It is not "our" missing link, but it is a link in the sense that it shows a previous deviation in the primate family tree. It is one of the first, if not the first, evidence of a primate deviation in the fossil record. (assuming it is not a hoax)

[TripleSkeet]

This is what I was expecting to see...
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/2492/49072543.jpg (http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=49072543.jpg)

[Pestz4Evah]

I'm no kin to the monkey, NO NO NO (http://intelligentdesign.ytmnd.com/)

[dino_electropolis]

this is old news....


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[Kris10]

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2009/May/Week3/15284702.jpg

Lemur Monkey. It is a monkey, per all of the scientists.

http://www.nick.com/shows/penguins-of-madagascar/images/characters/kingjulien.gif
my favorite lemur!

[jessicaduh]

this is old news....


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i miss that johnny. bad.

[badmonkey]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/RonPerlman06TIFF.jpg/492px-RonPerlman06TIFF.jpg

[topless_mike]

http://www.metroactive.com/bohemian/03.29.06/gifs/fakebands-0613.jpg

[Syd]

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[keithy_19]

My problem with science and religion is the fact that it seems like neither think the other can exsists.

The truth is, we evolved. We evolve. Things evolve. It's how it works.

That doesn't mean that their isn't a God. It doesn't mean that the earth wasn't created in 7 days (God time). There is a scientist who did this incredibly complex calculation that shows that because time/space expands, that it is feasible that it took 7 "days" for the world to be created. But because of the expansion of space, it took much, much longer.

[Furtherman]

That doesn't mean that their isn't a God. It doesn't mean that the earth wasn't created in 7 days (God time). There is a scientist who did this incredibly complex calculation that shows that because time/space expands, that it is feasible that it took 7 "days" for the world to be created. But because of the expansion of space, it took much, much longer.

Ehhh, no.

Even if there was "god time", we'd never understand it, especially the men who put the bible together.

[Kris10]

God for Dummies

[kdubya]

I hate the term "missing link". The truth is there is no such thing. The fosil record leading starts with the last species that links man and apes , a guy called procounsel africanus, it lived about 20 million years ago. From that there is a pretty solid line leading to modern man. There are some possible dead ends that have yet to be fully explained (neanderthal and gigantopithecus, etc... ), but over all there is a pretty good picture of how we came to be.
This notion of this magic find that explains it all is just silly. The idea of a missing link comes from Victorian times, they hoped to find a fosil showing that man evolved on a mental level before a physical level. At the time the hope was that fosil would be found in England (look at the Piltdown man scandal for that story) The hope was proof that our inteligence is what defined us more than any other characteristic.

I also hate the notion that evolution means we evolved from monkeys. evolution says we evolved with monkeys, not from.

[Death Metal Moe]

My problem with science and religion is the fact that it seems like neither think the other can exsists.

The truth is, we evolved. We evolve. Things evolve. It's how it works.

That doesn't mean that their isn't a God. It doesn't mean that the earth wasn't created in 7 days (God time). There is a scientist who did this incredibly complex calculation that shows that because time/space expands, that it is feasible that it took 7 "days" for the world to be created. But because of the expansion of space, it took much, much longer.

Actually a lot of scientists believe in a God or higher power. They just don't believe in the version of God that many of the major religions try to package a sell society.

[Gvac]

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[EliSnow]

Other scientists have come out and said that this "missing link" is no such thing. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091021/ap_on_sc/us_sci_controversial_fossil).

The new analysis says Darwinius does not belong in the same primate category as monkeys, apes and humans. Instead, the analysis concluded, it falls into the other major grouping, which includes lemurs.

Experts agreed.

"This is a rigorous analysis based on many features," said Eric Sargis, an anthropology professor at Yale. He said he'd found the argument of the Darwinius researchers unconvincing, so the new result came as no surprise.