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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
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and feathers. Archaeopteryx, they have finally admitted, was just 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
touted as the missing link between apes and man. She was given the
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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
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there 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
Pithecanthropus as a transitional form and suggested that it was just a giant gibbon.
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Ida
Unbridled hoopla attended the unveiling of a 47-million-year-old primate
skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on May 19,
1983. Ida was hailed as the missing link and the “eighth wonder of the
world.” Ida turned out to be the fossil of a lemur, lacking only a grooming
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claw and a row of fused teeth.

Tiktaalik
Despite substantial differences between the fossilized
fish Tiktaalik (supposed 380 Million years ago) and terrestrial tetrapods,
many evolutionists insist Tiktaalik was a transitional form. However, the
fleshy fins of Tiktaalik do not attach to the bony pelvis and so could not
support weight for walking. Furthermore, the bones in the fins of these

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.
12 https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17173-why-ida-fossil-is-not-the-missing-link/