{"id":92,"date":"2009-05-20T20:12:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/05\/a-jaundiced-eye-on-ida.html"},"modified":"2009-05-20T20:12:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:12:58","slug":"a-jaundiced-eye-on-ida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/05\/a-jaundiced-eye-on-ida.html","title":{"rendered":"A Jaundiced Eye on Ida"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You’ll forgive me if I cast a somewhat jaundiced eye on Ida<\/span>, evolution’s latest supposed missing link. Yet when the old girl is found gracing even the front page of Google<\/a>, you know it’s a phenomenon that at least deserves a moment’s notice. Rob Crowther’s post at ENV<\/a> offers the appropriate response: laughter. Don’t skip the dancing boy video at the end.<\/div>\n
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If they weren’t atheists, you’d think the scientists raising the ballyhoo over Ida<\/span> were hailing the second coming.<\/p>\n

Here is yet another icon of evolution. Every time one of these discoveries is made, there’s a huge PR snow job from the Darwin lobby to make it seem like it answers all the questions and objections. I thought Tiktaalik<\/span> did that. Or maybe Archaeopteryx<\/span>. It goes at least as far back as Proconsul<\/span>. Each time the Darwinists seem to forget they already found the missing link — the one fossil to rule them all — and re-find it all over again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Manolith also suggests this headline for the story<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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Missing Link Found; Owners Take Flyers Down From Local Lampposts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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