unCommonSense: The Missing Link or Marketing Ploy?

“Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilized skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.” – Sky News

This amazing fossil discovery, dubbed “Ida”, has been described by experts as the “eighth wonder of the world” and on par with the famous unearthing of the Rosetta Stone which allowed the world to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.  It’s impact on paleontology has also been described as “somewhat like an asteroid falling down to earth”.  In other words, its a big deal.  This is the one, the holy grail of Darwinism.  The fossil that proves without a shadow of a doubt that humans evolved from apes. Sky Net summed up this crushing blow to skeptics of evolution in the final paragraph of their article: