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The headlines are easy to find. MSNBC and Yahoo have declared the Missing Link has been found. Google has it splashed on their new design. Scientists are all gaagaa over this supposed proof that men are related to a rock.
I am not one bit impressed. I am actually rather in awe of the pathetic display by those over this fossil:
The fossil is an impressive fossil from the standpoint of how complete it is. The real debate going on is how the fossil will be classified by scientists. Those proclaiming it to be “The Missing Link” say it is a lemur-monkey. Others say it is just a kind of lemur. What is disclosed is this lemur is an immature female. In human years, it would be the equivalent of a 6 year old. This lemur is projected to be about 9 months old before it got squished like Scrat in the opening of Ice Age. However, lemurs do not mature until 2.5 to 3 years of age.
Here is the greatest problem these brilliant scientists have overlooked. All they have is a dead animal. There is no proof the animal had offspring much less offspring that were different from it. No one was there to observe it. No observation means the first step of science has not been met. But the observation that this is an immature female carries with it an even bigger whammy. Even if evolution could be true (easily disproven), we know this dead animal didn’t get old enough to have kids. No offspring means the line ended when this little lady got squished. This can’t possibly be any kind of a “missing link.” They’ll need a different mature skeleton to even try to make an argument. Even then, it is impossible to determine if the dead animal had kids much less kids different than itself.
The best question that I can see that comes out of this is based on the lemur itself. It was found in Germany. Most lemurs are found on Madagascar and the surrounding islands. What was it doing in Germany?
I think I can try to guess at that with the same skill level as these so-called scientists. I think she tried to escape from the antics of King Julian.
Who am I to say all of this? I’m just someone who isn’t dumbstruck enough by a science fiction story to be able to understand 2+2 still equals 4.
Recorded history only goes back 5000 years. Before that, we have no recordings of any observations. Step one of the scientific method is observation. No one was there to observe this lemur getting squished. If they were, they didn’t write it down on something we found. Science ended before this pure speculation began.
Still don’t like what I wrote? Then please answer this question: What is the difference between Science and Science Fiction?
