“Ida” is No Missing Link

Michael T. Griffith

May 26, 2009

In their usual fashion, some evolutionists and the media are making sensational claims about a fossil they have named "Ida." Skeptical scientists who have studied the matter are already saying "Ida" is nothing but an extinct primate and merely resembles a modern lemur. Even other evolutionists have rejected the claim that Ida a missing link.

But such objections have been ignored by Ida's proponents and, of course, by the media. Indeed, the History Channel has already produced a “special” on Ida as the new missing link, even though serious peer review of the sensational claims about Ida has only just barely begun.

Chris Beard, the curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, has published an article, titled "Why Ida Fossil is Not the Missing Link," in which he discusses some of the reasons that Ida "fails miserably" to qualify as a missing link, and he, too, notes that Ida very closely resembles a modern lemur.

Why Ida is Not the Missing Link

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17173-why-ida-fossil-is-not-the-missing-link.html

It should be pointed out that the evolutionist community has a long track record of making sensational claims about this or that fossil that (1) later turned out to be false, and (2) were made about fossils that had either been doctored or erroneously identified. Such infamous cases as Lucy, Java Man, Peking Man, Piltdown Man, and Nebraska Man come to mind. The last four cases were later exposed as outright hoaxes.

Ida Fossil Hype Went Too Far

http://www.livescience.com/culture/090520-ida-fossil-hype.html

Ida: Separating the Science from the Media Campaign

http://www.icr.org/articles/print/4642/

"Ida" an Extinct Primate -- And That's All

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=536242

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michael T. Griffith holds a Master’s degree in Theology from The Catholic Distance University, a Graduate Certificate in Ancient and Classical History from American Military University, a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from Excelsior College, and two Associate in Applied Science degrees from the Community College of the Air Force. He also holds an Advanced Certificate of Civil War Studies and a Certificate of Civil War Studies from Carroll College. He is a graduate in Arabic and Hebrew of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and of the U.S. Air Force Technical Training School in San Angelo, Texas. In addition, he has completed Advanced Hebrew programs at Haifa University in Israel and at the Spiro Institute in London, England. He is the author of five books on Mormonism and ancient texts, including How Firm A Foundation, A Ready Reply, and One Lord, One Faith.