The missing link?

...something's missing that's for sure...
like FACTS!
I don't know how many of you have seen the news lately or seen it because of the new google browser but there was a story about some people finding a near perfect fossil (over 20 years ago....) that is just now being revealed to the public. Of course scientists are jumping all over this claiming it as the missing link because-and correct me if i get this wrong- it has fingernails, posable thumbs, and it's hind legs seem to suggest that it would eventually evolve to where it would stand straight up etc. I won't pretend to know anything on this subject cause I don't- my dreams of becoming a paleontologist/archaeologist ended back when i was 13 but still...why, when scientists are supposed to be driven by hard cold facts, are so quick to throw statements around like the missing link when they don't have enough facts/evidence to prove it? It just seems ironic to me that scientists-not all, but some seem to jump all over the religious for their faith and no facts, but then they turn around and without many facts come to a full on conclusion? sigh.
Here is why i'm a skeptic at this point. But don't get me wrong-is it cool? very cool! but here is why i'm not sold on the whole missing link thing- first of all it has fingernails.....um great....so do many primates today, it has posable thumbs-again so do some primates today, and the whole evolving leg thing to where it would stand straight- they said a part of it was actually missing...i dunno, just a lot of fishiness about it.
Why did they wait twenty years before they came out with it? I mean...the fingernail/thumb thing could be noticed in the first few minutes looking at the remains and after twenty years this is all they can tell us about it? My coworker made a funny point: that for these past twenty years they just figured they found an old monkey skeleton which was interesting but not earth shattering until someone put the idea into their heads-what if it was some kind of evolutionary miracle/a missing link which, naturally, they liked and so they started looking for anything that could lean towards it being some sort of link between humans and primates and all they could come up with is what we already know-that primates fingernails and posable thumbs and I've seen lemurs on national geographic etc and out of all the monkeys i've seen etc. they really are long and can stand up pretty straight if they want to so that doesn't really surprise me either...i dunno....i'm not sold.

Is this a cool find? most definitely but it's a link within the primate/monkey family it is not a link between primates/monkeys and humans-if it were there would be something that we humans have but no primates have which it doesn't.

nice try though.


p.s. i had a really weird dream last night that was a mix of "Lost" (i'm in the 4th season now) and just me back with the fam somewhere. but the funny part was i was walking and randomly walked past adam and of course i just act nonchalant: hey, how's it going! ya know, everything is cool but the way he stopped and the look on his face was hilarious-just so unbelievably awkward so i just gave him an awkward high five and kept going. I want the scientists to stop jumping to half-cocked conclusions and come up with a cool machine that will record your dreams so you can rewind and watch the "best of" ok? there's something to invest your time in!

but seriously, i don't hate science-i like it, it's cool, just some scientists are a lil too eager.