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The Missing Link – Google Fossil Logo 2009

  • May 20th, 2009
  • 7:51 pm

Google turned its logo into a fossil today to celebrate and honor the findings and unveiling of the 47-million year old beautifully preserved skeleton of a monkey-like creature, which scientists claim may provide a missing link in human evolution.

Scientists unveil fossil of Darwinius masillae

Say hello to "Aunt Ida"- you’ll find her 47million years back on your family tree.

The lemur-like fossil, thought to be a missing link between today’s primates and distant relatives, is on show at New York’s American Museum of Natural History after being launched amid great fanfare by the city’s mayor.

It has been named Darwinius masillae and investigators claim it will finally confirm irrefutably Sir Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Story covered in New York Times, Times Online, The Hindu, Mirror.co.uk, LA Times, Guardian, National Geographic, Telegraph.

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  • Ida
  • May 21st, 2009
  • 3:49 am

I hope they paid you enough.

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nice logo, to bad those god lovers had to protest… so hypocrite that we, non believers, should take their ‘feelings’ into account. But not the other way round…

god(any) does not exist!

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  • sweb
  • May 22nd, 2009
  • 10:01 pm

Why does that theory make such a fuss
the evolution has been proved withoit a douth
thats’s god’s will too…who put the prove there….history of earth and creation
the biblic version is just a condensed version to be comprehenden by small minded god fearing people that cannot cope with real life

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  • Bob
  • May 23rd, 2009
  • 1:15 pm

You Ameri-can-s. Religion is something that you are allowed to practice in your own group but you cannot bring it outside and bother other people with it. It is too stupid for words that in this time and age so many people still follow a book written by man 2000 years ago. Make up your own religion, and let it be much more happy then the ones you are prcticing now.

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  • Marco Meerman
  • May 23rd, 2009
  • 1:46 pm

Bob says:

“It is too stupid for words that in this time and age so many people still follow a book written by man 2000 years ago”

Marco Meerman says:

I fully agree with you Bob, well said.

I know how to make a anekdote :-) :

Chistians say: If i found some (scientific evidence of evolution) bone in my yard, and my (textbook) Bible does not say anything about it, then i go wine, mone and cry.

A scientist says: I go formulate hypothesis
about a God bashing theory, then i’m gonna test my idea. I find a bone, does it exist in the textbooks? No? Then research and refine my case. Is that new idea in the textbooks yet? NO?

Good for him!

PUBLISH!

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  • Martijn Vos
  • May 23rd, 2009
  • 11:16 pm

The story is needlessly, even ridiculously sensationalist.

“The lemur-like fossil, thought to be a missing link between today’s primates and distant relatives”

Of course using the word “missing link” will trigger knee-jerk reactions from fundamentalists. But this species is not an ancestor of humans, it might be an ancestor of other species living today. Or it might not be.

Calling any random fossil a missing link is silly anyway. There aren’t really any explicitly missing links left, just millions of fossils that haven’t been found yet.

“Investigators claim it will finally confirm irrefutably Sir Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.”

Finally? Really? The theory of evolution (which has improved quite a lot since Charles Darwin) has been quite thoroughly confirmed already, and if it hadn’t, this fossil wouldn’t change a thing about that.

It’s really a very nice fossil, but don’t make more out of it than it is.

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  • Martijn Vos
  • May 23rd, 2009
  • 11:23 pm

Chistians say: If i found some (scientific evidence of evolution) bone in my yard, and my (textbook) Bible does not say anything about it, then i go wine, mone and cry.

Those kind of short-sighted generalisations aren’t helping. Many christians don’t have any problem with evolution (after all, if God created the entire universe with all its laws of physics, doesn’t it stand to reason that God created the process of evolution too?). The only people who have a real problem with it is a small but very vocal group with an awfully limited view of God who like to believe everybody is out to get them.

Most normal christians have no problem with science or fitting evolution into their world view. It’s just a small group that insists on giving other christians a bad name.

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  • Me
  • May 24th, 2009
  • 4:24 am

Well,

Heaps of sceintist say that the universm has been created out of nowhere.

You can say, if you believe in a god, that a god created it all. Including all the laws as stated above…

You can even suggest, that sceintist proved that god exist!

Does it make sense that something is created out of nowhere?

Well,

I cant be bothered bout anything.

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  • Petra
  • May 25th, 2009
  • 4:09 pm

Who will know. Maybe fossils are a joke made by God.
They say He created us to look like him. We have (most off us do) a sense of humor. He must have too.

After death, we will know, won’t we?

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  • Armand
  • May 25th, 2009
  • 5:19 pm

I’m a God lover.
Why all these troubles, it’s a great and nice logo. It is a news item, nothing more or less. Why people allways link their own believings in everything, I don’t know.
I hope Google keeps up the nice artistic exposures!!

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  • Fred
  • May 25th, 2009
  • 6:24 pm

AMEN Armand, i am certainly not a god lover, since there is in my opinion to much evidence that god or anything like it does not exists, and it is only a smart tool to control and manipulate people. But that aside u are totally right its a nice logo, and a news item nothing more and nothing less.

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  • Brian
  • May 26th, 2009
  • 7:15 pm

Keep up the good work Google.
Scientific discoveries are the backbone of understanding and should be celebrated.
Use of the logo has certainly proved once again that the god-club is supersensetive about anything that might blow a hole in their ‘it-all-began-with-magic’ story.

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  • Nikki
  • May 27th, 2009
  • 2:15 am

What amazes me the most is that the same people that yell and scream now that this is an insult, outrage or however they whish to describe it, are also the same people that say they cant understand why people kill out of name of their religion.
To be honest, I cant understand either of the two, but there is a lot of hypocrisy going on here.
Live and let live, believe and let believe.

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  • Dan Mulley
  • May 27th, 2009
  • 6:36 pm

Everyone who says this find in in significant – *ahem* Martijn Vos – is sadly ignorant of the facts.

Yes evolution has been generally accepted to be true. Yet it has never been irrefutably CONFIRMED until now, with solid fossil evidence to back up all of its points. The discovery of the fossil of Lucy in 1974 linked simians and humans to a common ancestor.

However, Darwin’s prediction also stated that primates (humans, monkeys, etc) must be linked to, and so have a common ancestor with, the rest of the animal kingdom. Solid fossil evidence of this was not present, so this could not be proven. Until now – with the discovery of Ida, which did just that.

Yes, perhaps the discovery has been somewhat over-publicised or hyped, and perhaps the route the scientists took to reveal their findings was questionable in its heavy media involvement. But none of this diminishes the significance of the discovery, which is truly remarkable, and finally proves Darwin correct.

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  • Dan Mulley
  • May 27th, 2009
  • 6:38 pm

EDIT: Everyone who says this find *is *insignificant…

Typos, the bane of every writer.

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  • manonthemoon
  • July 21st, 2009
  • 4:00 pm

best google logo yet..

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  • Dealhound
  • September 1st, 2009
  • 6:20 pm

Why the link to the Christian organisation at the bottom which is a link to an intelligent design site. Has google been hijacked?

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  • Jeff
  • September 15th, 2009
  • 7:56 pm

sweb, if evolution had actually been proven, then a find like this would barely make a quarter page article in a magazine. No one would be making any big deal about it. The only reason they do make a big deal about it is because evolutionists don’t have any conclusive scientific evidence.

You’ll notice there was no big news stories about how after further review Ida is no missing link, but you can find them if you bother to look:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17173-why-ida-fossil-is-not-the-missing-link.html

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  • I luv LOL-IZ
  • October 11th, 2009
  • 9:22 am

LOL!!!!
The missing link is from Monsters vs. Aliens!

I wonder who came up with the missing link in Monsters vs. Aliens!

From: ~ LOL-LIZ

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  • I luv LOL-IZ
  • October 11th, 2009
  • 9:25 am

Well God is real!
Wenmaster ur a noob and if there is no god then ho made us, a bunch of fat fuck asses?
Well ur made by a fuck ass shit while all of us are made by god!

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  • Charlie
  • October 22nd, 2009
  • 11:46 pm

@ Jeff: Thank you for a reasoned thought. Folks, please check the news sources for an update to this finding, if you’re interested in truth. You can bet there will be no follow-up on the same scale as the free pro-evolutionary promotion Google had provided the masses for an entire day.

Thank you Google. Nice.

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I love the post, but what I think really fills in the holes is all the great comments..many great points made on a very hot topic that brings out so much fiery emotions….thanks everyone.

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An interesting debate as to whether it is the missing link or not. At least Google occassionally shares some interesting info.

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Another cool logo by Google!

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This is probably one of the most interesting logos Google have done. At least it invites discussion and gets people to think.

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They are finding news things everyday…
Thanks for a great blog

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I watch a show about this, they keep coming up with missing links in the human evolution, its hard to know what to believe…

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Great logo, seems like they always come up with some logo to go with the latest stories..

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No one would be making any big deal about it. The only reason they do make a big deal about it is because evolutionists don’t have any conclusive scientific evidence.

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Great blog, thanks…keep up the great work.

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it was said I watch a show about this, they keep coming up with missing links in the human evolution, its hard to know what to believe…
I agree big time.

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It is one of the most confusing things of all time.

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