Missing Link Fossil Discovered

choongiri writes "The Guardian is reporting the discovery of a missing link of evolution. From the article: "Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago.""

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Can we stop with the stupid comments?

[a.d.trick]

I know there was no harm meant, but I see comments like this all the time, and they're no more helpful than all the adolecent slashdoters who go on about MS being teh (sic) gay.

The myth that christianity and science are at odds is really unfortunate, particularly because it is being propogated by people who really ought to know better (both on the christian and the secular side). I don't really what the arguing is about. Evolution on a cosmic level has never been observed and it's not much more than an educated guess. Even if it was, evolution isn't contrary to the Christian belief (this is where those 'Creation Scientists' are wrong). The Genesis creation story is a story, it's not an historical account, it was never meant to be*. You won't really understand Genesis 1-2 unless you understand the historical context they were written in.

* note: I didn't say it was nessicarily false. The the historical accuracy this this case is not relevant to the story. There are deeper messages there, ones that can not be proved by scientific measurements.

Re:It's not a missing link, and nice predictions

[servognome]

I agree. It's time to stop. It's like saying that 1.5 is the missing link between 1 and 2 and then someone comes along and says "no, there's a gap between 1 and 1.5".

You mean stop science itself? Science is based on data, without the missing link between 1 and 1.5 you can't fully understand what occurred during that transition.