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most distant of man’s relatives. Since scientists have found billions of fossils from the past, and if
evolutionary theory is true then, they should be able to find fossils that would clearly display the
changes that occurred over the eons of time to produce man from apes. We should find creatures that
are difficult to classify because over those years, changes happened very gradually. Somewhere along
the way, we should find an intermediary fossil that links man to the apes. For over a 170 years,
scientists have searched for such a fossil: the missing link.

Actually paleontologists have been looking a link between any gap in the fossil record between any
animal and its supposed evolutionary ancestor. Missing links are placeholders used when a transitional
fossil cannot be found to fill in the “tree of life,” a visual representation of the evolutionary process
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showing relationships between species. For example, for vertebrates to move out of the water on to
the land as is taught by evolutionary theory, there must be an animal which first developed lungs and
four legs. When they find no proof of such a transitional species, its place is marked as “missing” on the
tree. It is assumed by the evolutionists that the species exists in order for evolution to be true; they just
have not found it yet. So rather than admit that a link never existed, they hold on their faith in evolution
that someday links will be found.

Charles Darwin confessed in the Origin of the Species that the absence of transitional fossils is “the most
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serious objection which can be urged against the theory.” Stephen J. Gould, a militant humanist and
evolutionist said, “All paleontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of
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intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt.” To solve the
problem, Gould came invented a new theory called “punctuated equilibrium.” His theory was that
evolution occurred in spurts where transitions were so rapid, that no evidence is available to verify
those changes.

In 1940, Professor Richard B. Goldschmidt of the University of California postulated another quick fix.
He proposed that there occurred gigantic mutations, which, he claimed, could produce “hopeful
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monsters.” He postulated that the first bird hatched from a reptilian egg. The problem he faced is that
TWO hopeful monsters must hatch at the same time, one male and one female, and find one another to
be able to reproduce. Again, another fairy tale rather than admit the truth that there are no missing
links. God created each type of plant and animal “after its kind.”

In the past, several fossils that have been found have been declared to be missing links, only to be
disheartened that the evidence denied the facts that there is no link. Here are a few examples:

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

4 https://www.compellingtruth.org/missing-link.html
5 C. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 313.
6 https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/306-those-missing-links
7 Ibid.