So say the unnamed “they,” a very excited group of paleontologists probably, about a 43 million-year-old fossil that looks to me like a chimp, but more than a chimp to them. That’s 43 million years ago that this maybe-more-than-a-chimp lived. A long long long time ago. You know I always wondered, if the sun is burning itself into a smaller star all the time, then how big was it 43 million years ago? How could anything have lived on our planet back then? Since, as scientists tell us, if the earth were a certain amount of miles closer to the sun all life and water would burn up. Then, again, What do I know?
Here’s a brief summary of the find from Inside Catholic by Brian Saint Paul. I disagree adamantly with the author, but the comments posted by “I am not Spartacus” and “Kelso” are definitely worth a read.