Guardian.CO.UK is reporting that the missing link in human evolution has finally been found. The article titled Fossil Ida: extraordinary find is 'missing link' in human evolution seems to be really pumped about this as evidenced from the following quotation:
"This will be the one pictured in the textbooks for the next hundred years," said Dr Jørn Hurum, the palaeontologist from Oslo University's Natural History Museum who assembled the scientific team to study the fossil. "It tells a part of our evolution that's been hidden so far. It's been hidden because the only [other] specimens are so incomplete and so broken there's nothing almost to study..."
Itallics mine. A transitional form? Will this turn out to be another in the long line of missing links that fail to live up to the hype? Is it really true that "the only [other] specimens are so incomplete and so broken that there's nothing almost to study? I thought human evolution was as proven as gravity.
As Berlinski notes: "Although Darwin's theory is very often compared favorably to the great theories of mathematical physcis on the grounds that evolution is as well established as gravity, very few physicists have been heard observing that gravity is as well established as evolution. They know better and they are not stupid." The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretentions (191)
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