Missing Link Found - New Scientist Journal

[Thing]

Missing link found - how do I reconcile this with my faith? Any help please.

New Scientist Journal
01 April 2010

By Gingra McGillicuddy

Spectacular New Find In Irish Fossil Dig Site

Only this morning news has been breaking internationally of a truly spectacular fossil find at a recently opened dig site.
Palaeontologist Larry Fork explains why the new find was a crock of gold compared with monster finds such as Lucy or australopithecus afarensis.

The fossilised skull of a miniature “Human” has been unearthed along the Eires’s Ogliocene Coast.

The human ancestor, which is classified definitely as a hominin, walked the land 5 million years ago.

The skull is 2.4cm long, (one inch), and experts say it could belong to one of the smallest Hominins ever found: measuring up to 16cm, (7 inches), in height.

The fossil, which was found by a local paleontologist, has been purchased by Dublin County Council.

It was bought with money from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and it will now be scientifically analysed, prepared and then put on public display at Dublin County Museum.

Palaeontologist Larry Fork told the CNN: “I had heard rumours that something big was turning up. But seeing this thing in the flesh, so to speak, is just jaw dropping. It is simply an enormous scientific find, its the ‘missing link’ we’ve all been looking for - we are just really really lucky.”

Using Heritage Lottery Funds, Dublin County Council has now purchased the fossil for Euro 20,000.

David Luckier, the County’s museums advisor, said: “Our aim is to purchase fossils found along the Ogliocene Coast World Heritage Site and to get them into local museums - we want to put really exceptional fossils in museums.”
The fossil has been classified and named as A. Leprae Chaunnis (extinct Hominin).

The council is now meeting with experts to discuss how best to study and prepare the fossil.

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[NHInsider]

I don’t suppose it’s already April 1 where you are?

 

[Bob4BVM]

What is your faith ?
That story doesn’t REALLY crash your faith, does it ?
7-inch humans ???

 

[momor]

Definitely an April Fools joke.

 

[Ecoclimber]

Maybe it’s a fossil of an Irish leprechaun

 

[Prayer_Warrior]

Look at the second to the last line of the article. They named it “A. Leprae Chaunnis”. Ah, that good ole Irish humor!

 

[Michael_Francis]

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