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Archaeopteryx
Evolutionists believe that birds evolved from reptiles, but no
transitional animal between dinosaurs and birds had been found. Then
a fossil was found called archaeopteryx and they immediately put it
forward as a reptilian-avian link. Archeopteryx was bird-like, having
feathers, wings, and a bill; it was lizard-like having teeth, claws, and an
unfused backbone. The problem is that many reptiles don’t have
teeth, ostriches do have claws on their wings, penguins have an
unfused backbone, and platypuses have bills and lay eggs. So, those
characteristics of the archaeopteryx prove nothing. Scientists have not found any fossil bearing any kind
of transitional state between scales and feathers. Archaeopteryx, they have finally admitted, was just
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an extinct BIRD.

Lucy
Mary and Louis Leakey, in 1974, found a skeleton in the Awash Valley
of Ethiopia. The skeleton was supposedly 3.2 million years old and was
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touted as the missing link between apes and man. She was given the
classification as Australopithecus. Originally the few bone fragments
were touted as a find of the century. But as time has passed and the
bones studies carefully, they appear to be simply the bones of an
extinct ape.

Java Man
In 1891, a Dutch physician named Eugene Dubois, while search for fossils in Java,
uncovered the top half of a what he believed was a human skull and three teeth and
a thigh bone. The skull was found fifty feet away from the thigh bone and there
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were normal human skulls in the same area. Despite these problems, the fossil
was called Pithecanthropus and was presented to the world as a precursor to man,
Homo erectus – the missing link between man and ape. More likely, the skull
fragment is from an extinct ape and the thigh bone belongs to one of the human
skulls. Even evolutionists today admit that the specimens of Homo erectus are most
likely just variations of normal human beings.

It is interesting that toward the end of his life, Dubois distanced himself from
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Pithecanthropus as a transitional form and suggested that it was just a giant gibbon.

Ida

8 https://www.compellingtruth.org/missing-link.html
9 https://www.google.com/search?q=lucy+leakey&oq=lucy+leakey&aqs=chrome..69i57j46j0i22i30l4.7693j1j7&sour
ceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Man#:~:text=Java%20Man%20(Homo%20erectus%20erectus,%2C%20now%2
0part%20of%20Indonesia).
11 Marvin L. Lubenow, Bones of Contention, A creationist Assessment of Human Fossils, p. 97.