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Recent news articles have hailed the discovery of the “Ida” fossil as proof of evolution.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Missing-Link-Scientists-In-New-York-Unveil-Fossil-Of-Lemur-Monkey-Hailed-As-Mans-Earliest-Ancestor/Article/200905315284582?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15284582_Missing_Link%3A_Scientists_In_New_York_Unveil_Fossil_Of_Lemur_Monkey_Hailed_As_Mans_Earliest_Ancestor

As the war of ideas between the evolutionists and creationists rages, this latest volley exposes much about the nature of the debate. In the days following the announcement of the discovery some reporters have questioned the massive publicity campaign connected with this fossil. The efforts to promote this find as a “missing link” or evidence proving evolution have the ring of exaggerated, religious propaganda.

When the hype and rhetoric of those seeking to profit from this fossil is swept aside, what remains is a rather mundane fact – a fossil of a lemur like animal was discovered. This is evidence of an extinct, lemur-like animal, nothing more. Did it have opposable thumbs? Yes, as do present day lemurs and all other primates.

Does the fossil prove evolution? If an observation fits with a particular theory, that is not proof that the theory is correct. The observation of the movement of the sun across the sky fits quite nicely with the theory of a geo-centric model, but it is not proof that the sun revolves around the earth. The existence of an animal that has some similarities with human skeletal structure may fit with evolutionary theory, but it fits just as well with creationism, and therefore contributes nothing at all to the debate.

Showing evidence for evolutionary theory would require far more than the existence of a single “missing link.” It is not a single link, but the entire chain between species that is missing. Darwin recognized this as "the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory,” and assumed it was only because of the paucity of the fossil record in his time. (Origin of the Spices, pp.279-280). He assumed the millions of transitional species that his theory would require would indeed be found as more fossils were discovered. Today millions of fossils have been discovered, and apart from a few controversial inferences made from minor anatomical differences, there is no evidence of transitional forms.

Evidence pointing to a beautiful, glorious, powerful, and wise Creator, on the other hand, continues to increase; and that evidence is not compatible with a theory that attributes our existence to meaningless, purposeless, random changes in lifeless matter.