Ida Know

I didn't have time enough to do this right, but I wanted to bitch about the over-the-top exaggerations and tabloid sensationalism surrounding the discovery of Darwinius masillae.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Darwinius
• masillae
• ida
• lemur
• monkey
• evolution
• creationism
• venomfangx
• geerup
• science
• fossil

[delagrazia]

what made u stop believing in God?/i mean u believe in a higher power...or nature or nothing?

[AronRa]

@delagrazia How could I? 

[TheBoyd1986]

Aron, you disagreed with what attenborough said, saying ida was not a link between humans and other apes (that one being 35 years ago) but neither does he. he said ida is the link between apes/monkeys and smaller generalized mammals. Feel free to flame me if im misunderstanding

[AronRa]

Attenborough was wrong about Ida being a link between apes and more generalized primates. She was a link between lemurs and the rest of the primate clade.

[starguts]

Superb video. Excellent example of top notch science reporting for the general public.

Not too in-depth, not oversimplified, very thorough; just right.

Well done good sir.

[Tarynus]

The discovery of Ida was an example of the media not having all the facts before jumping to conclusions, but I guess that's what happens when someone makes the claim "We have found the missing link between humans & primates!" before a thorough examination of the subject has been performed

Thank you very much for pointing out this mistake, good sir, you are definately an amazing intellectual & one of the finest I've found on YouTube

[psycotria]

OUTSTANDING oratory and explanation of the phylogeny of human descent.

[Vexille1983]

Speaking of tabloid journalists, I recall reading in a newspaper (don't recall which one) three or four months back where an article in it flatly stated that modern humans were directly descended from Neanderthals. Made me cringe inside.

[Cougar139tweak]

David Attenborough seems to be a media whore dabbling in science and trying to make it "exciting" to the drone like masses (people who really and truly aren't interested) this turns a cool discovery into tabloid type garbage. Let's not recreate nebraska man, thats what happens when media gets ahold of science without proper oversight.

[paahtopaisti]

Good video. Good point. Good stuff...as usual. You are the one true warrior of reason. Keep posting. Never stop. Thank you sir!

[xESOTERlC]

@delagrazia If you're saying there must be an external source to trigger emotion, you're rather naive

In fact, you can intentionally tap into EVERY emotion(fear, anger, happy, horny, whatever) if you learn your body and capable of triggering the chemical and hormonal processes that give us the sensations we have labelled as "emotions"

[Retrieverman1]

The second mistake I've seen David Attenborough make. The first is when he called a brown hyena a species of dog.

[th30r3m]

I never understood why every little discovery is declared to be "the missing link" as if evolution were in need of additional fossil evidence to demonstrate its validity.

I guess it sells magazines and tv spots to be overly sensational.

[lilmarome]

@delagrazia I have never come across any good reasons for believing in a god. The only reason that I used to believe in a god was when I was too young to know that the evidence that I thought was evidence for a god wasn't really evidence. The dishonesty of religious people is saddening(they claim to know something that they can not possibly know).

When you grow up you stop believing in fairytales and that's just what happened and I haven't seen any reasons for believing in fairytales since then.

[sterfpaul]

"...so scientific evidence is never going to matter to any of these people... " So why do you make all these videos trying to convince or debate those people (religious especially creationist)? I do enjoy those videos and I agree with you (It's hard not to agree with facts :P ) ... just curious as to why