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...online journal PLoS One, really is important. First, the young mammal, which would have looked like a cross between a lemur and a small monkey, is astonishingly complete. "Most of what we understand about primate evolution is pieced together from bits of teeth and jaws," says Michael Novacek, curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. Ida, by contrast, has pretty much every bone, from the skull to the tip of the tail, and they're all in place. Not only that: you can see impressions of its fur in the surrounding material, and there are even...
...intriguing because she has some characteristics of both branches, which suggests that she could be a transitional animal that gave rise to the anthropoids and, ultimately, to us. "How transitional it is," says Novacek, "is a matter of debate and further study. I expected that from the beginning. The ratio of vertebrate paleontologists to actual specimens is high, which makes for a lot of theorizing." A specimen like this will reduce the theorizing, but in the end it may not settle anything...
...from the Ooze Michael J. Novacek's viewpoint [April 17] sustains the old-fashioned belief that biological evolution is incompatible with the idea of a Creator. There is incontrovertible evidence for biological evolution. Why could there not be a God who brought life into being and gave it the ability to evolve by what we call natural selection? Ikechukwu Obialo Azuonye Purley, England...
...Here we go again. one transitional fossil is found, and?presto!?Darwinism is undeniable. Paleontologist Novacek says some people will never be convinced and conveniently ignores the growing noncreationist voices of variance. The fishapod could be a link?or it could be a strange animal like a platypus. Without a worldwide fossil record of continuous transformation and demonstrable mechanisms of transition, it is far from a slam dunk for Darwin's theory in action. Michael Camp Poulsbo, Washington...
...from the Ooze Michael J. Novacek's Viewpoint [April 17] sustains the old-fashioned belief that biological evolution is incompatible with the idea of a Creator. What makes it so incomprehensible that evolution could be the method that a supernatural Creator has used to bring organisms into being? There is incontrovertible evidence for biological evolution. Why could there not be a God who brought life into being and gave it the ability to evolve by what we call natural selection? We have to just log our observations and continue the search for explanations without boxing ourselves into one particular viewpoint...