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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 an extinct BIRD. xxxvii

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. xxxviii 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 were normal human skulls in the same area. xxxix 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
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
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world.” Ida turned out to be the fossil of a lemur, lacking only a grooming
claw and a row of fused teeth.

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