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In the classification system, primates are the order in which apes, lemurs, monkeys, and man have been
placed. Evolutionary scientists believe that all primates are
related to a common ancestor. Of course, since apes look
more like modern man than other primates, they are
believed to be the 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
serious objection which can be urged against the theory.” Stephen J. Gould, a militant humanist and
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evolutionist said, “All paleontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of
intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt.” To solve the
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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
monsters.” He postulated that the first bird hatched from a reptilian egg. The problem he faced is that
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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:

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.