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This fossil, discovered in 2008 in the Malapa cave in South Africa, consisted of components belonging to two living things. Darwinists alleged that these “represented a complete skeleton.” But the fact is that these fossils consisted of a single skull and a few bones belonging to two living things. To put it more clearly, there was no complete skeleton of the kind alleged by Darwinists. But for Darwinists, who have no hesitations over producing wide-ranging reconstructions of a fictitious life form in a social setting on the basis of a single little finger, the amount of bones found was quite sufficient to engage in plentiful conjecture.
Darwinists, who are as yet unable to account for a single protein, claimed that this fossil was supposedly “our forebear.” But these two living fossils, with their height of just 1 meter, a skull volume of 420-450cc (much smaller than the 1200-1600cc skull volume of modern humans), long arms, identical to those of orangutans that permit them to climb trees, short legs and all their other characteristics, are clearly a species of ape. Yet despite all this evidence, they were still declared by Darwinists to be “life forms that walked upright.” This famous claim of bipedalism (walking upright) that evolutionists make in the context of every extinct species of simian, was again in this case of course completely unfounded. Not a single piece of evidence was produced. The fossils simply reveal that they belong to a species of simian. What they are trying to do, just as in the case of Ardi, is to invent a false intermediate form for supposed human evolution by portraying a perfect chimpanzee as walking on two legs. But, just as with Ardi, this claim is entirely unsupported by any evidence and is definitely a fabrication. Moreover, again as with the furore over Ardi, the majority of Darwinists have expressed their embarrassment over it all.
The strongest criticism of Darwinists, who declared a perfect, extinct simian fossil to be the forerunner of man by saying “we expect it walked upright,” even though all its physical characteristics suggested the exact opposite, came from Darwinists embarrassed by this illogical fanfare.
Hearing of the claim in question, the renowned Darwinist scientist Carl Zimmer challenged the deception being perpetrated regarding Ida and complained, “please, please, not again!” In an article on the Slate magazine web site, he said that Ida was first described as a “missing link” in the Telegraph, and then, with no loss of time, by other news channels. Zimmer noted that, although no information had been provided about the fossil, the reports in questions described it in excited language along the lines of “we have at long last found our ancestor.” When information about the fossil was published in Science magazine approximately one week later, the world found itself looking at the famous Australopithecus sediba. Zimmer continued:
… these fossils are certainly significant in a lot of ways, one thing they definitely are not is a missing link.311
Bill Jungers, from Stony Brook University in New York, said that the fossil in question had nothing whatever to do with the description Homo habilis and referred to it as another perfect simian.
In a report in Nature News, Michael Cherry said:
But the researchers' suggestion that the fossils represent a transitional species in human evolution, sitting between Australopithecus and Homo species, has been criticized by other researchers as overstated.312
One of the supporters of Lee Berger, who examined the fossil, said:
The Malapa specimens will rekindle the debate about the validity of the taxon Homo habilis.313