Ida is described as 'the Eighth Wonder of the World'.
Looking at the fossilised, dead lemur, our 'ancestor', thoughts of greatness and glory hardly come to mind.
'What is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you take care of him?
You made him little lower than the angels;
you crowned him with glory and honour,
And set him over the works of your hands.
You have put all things in subjection under his feet'
'I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.'
We have indeed:
'changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man....birds, four-footed beasts and creeping things.'
Man is worshipping Ida as if she was some kind of god. Her fossilised remains fit the description well.
David Attenborough sees this 'beautiful little creature' as our link with the animal world, the research as 'an act of faith'.
All the marks of a religion.
Man becomes what he worships.
We should be preoccupied with life rather than death
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