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Re:Darwin validated: Missing link found by gort on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @05:47PM (#617693)
The headline makes it sound as if this is the first such thing ever found. I'd like to point to arch-Darwinist P.Z. Myers: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/05/darwinius_masilla...

"The hype is bad news, not because Ida is unimportant, but because it detracts from the larger body of the fossil record"

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Re:Darwin validated: Missing link found by tybris on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @06:28AM (#618321)
The ignorant will ignore the fossil record regardless of Ida. The only thing they don't ignore is sound-bites.
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