Fossil makes weak link

The so-called “missing link” between primates and man was recently found in Germany. This 47-million-year-old fossil, nicknamed Ida, has caused a great stir among the two sides of the creation controversy.

Harvard’s Stephen Jay Gould, one of the greatest experts on the evolution side, once said, “The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.” In addition, Charles Darwin himself said, “The number of intermediate and transitional links must have been inconceivably great.”

So besides Ida, where are they? Ida indeed may be someone’s relative, but her descendents that claim her as their own survive mainly today in jungles, zoos and college faculties.

My oldest ancestor left no fossil or even a gravestone, but I’ll take Adam on his worst day over little Ida that Gould and other evolution-backers claim as theirs.

Dale Roloff

Spokane