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Evolutionists’ Confessions Regarding IDA
(Darwinius masillae)

The claims made about the fossil known as IDA, that the Darwinist
David Attenborough lauded as the missing link sought for so many years
and that the press heralded under headlines such as “the ancestor of
man” and “the eighth wonder of the world,” attracted powerful criticism
even from Darwinist scientists.
Darwinists suddenly shone the spotlight onto a lemur fossil that had

been sitting quietly for the previous twenty six years. Some Darwinist sci-
entists were initially cautious and made moderate statements to the effect
that “it is still too early to call the fossil a missing link.” But the proapa-
ganda has reached such terrifying dimensions, and become so ,blatant,
that even Darwinist scientists have had to react against this lie.

In an article on the ABC News web site titled “The Missing Link?” the
Johns Hopkins University and Carnegie Museum of Natural History pa-
leontologist Chris Beard says, “This fossil is not as close to monkeys,
apes, and humans AS WE ARE BEING LED TO BELIEVE.” 306 In an-
other article, this time in New Scientist magazine, titled “Why Ida Fossil is
Not The Missing Link?” Beard explicitly states that Ida has no character-

istics resembling those of human beings, for which reason it cannot be de-
scribed as a missing link. According to the Darwinist Beard, no matter
how much research is done on it, Ida is not, in that sense, the eighth won-
der of the world. 307 Instead, Beard explicitly says that the fossil is a perfect

one that will provide us with information about biology.
Richard Kay, a paleontologist from Duke University, openly admits
that we have no scientific to support the claims that Ida is the missing
link. In other words, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE AT ALL. 308 Elwyn
Simons, another Duke University paleontologist, has said that Ida tells us
nothing we did not know before. 309