This would be highly amusing were it not so sad. A fossil is discovered which has certain shared characteristics with humans, and this proves “direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom.” Why we must imagine that we are descendants of a creature simply because it has nails rather than claws, and opposeable big toes, will perhaps be lost on some of us.
Just for the record: It is impossible for a fossil to demonstrate that humans descend from another form of animal life. Just because it would be impossible for evolution to be true unless there were transitional moments does not at all imply the roughly converse – viz, that an animal appearing to be somewhere between humans and other animals is a transitional creature proving the evolution of humans.
But evolution is every bit as much a faith as Christianity is. In this case, apparently quite a lot less logical.
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