Missing Links

If evolution is true, then all animals and people slowly evolved from simple to complex over millions of years' time. If this is correct, we would expect to find, for example, not only fossils of reptiles and birds, but also creatures in the in-between stage, half bird, half reptile type creatures. However, these links are missing!

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Some evolutionists claim that the now-extinct bird called the Archaeopteryx is a missing link between reptiles and birds. Here are a few good reasons why God created Archaeopteryx as it was, not as a link between two very different types of animals:

• Archaeopteryxes had fully formed wings just like the birds of today. With perfectly designed airfoil wings, they were fit to fly! You wouldn't expect this if it were half reptile.
• Also, a fossil of a bird bone that dated back to the same time as the archaeopteryx was found. The fossil was even more similar to modern birds than the archaeopteryx. This was a startling discovery, since archaeopteryx was supposed to be the earliest bird, and if there was another bird living at the same time that was more "advanced" than the archaeopteryx, then the hypothesis is somehow incorrect!
• One feature that evolutionists say makes the archaeopteryx reptilian is the claws on its wings. However, several types of birds that are still living, namely, the Hoatzin, Touraco, and Ostrich, also have claws on their wings, and yet are not considered missing links. The archaeopteryx is just another bird with claws.

Archaeopteryxes, with their claws, and teeth, were birds. God created them as birds, and created reptiles as reptiles. The archaeopteryx is not a missing link, and never will be. The fossil record holds absolutely no evidence of links between types.

We have all heard of the links between monkeys and modern man, but have we ever been told the true story about these "cave men"?

• NEBRASKA MAN

The "Nebraska Man" was created from an artist's imagination from a single tooth that was discovered. Aside from the ridiculousness of making a whole man out of a tooth, the tooth was found to be that of an extinct wild pig.

• PILTDOWN MAN

A mandible and a portion of a skull were found in an English gravel pit by Charles Dawson in 1912. After the remains were advertised as "missing links" all over the world, the bones were found to be a fraud in 1953. The skull was human, and the teeth on the ape's jaw were filed down and chemically treated to look old.

• ORCE MAN

In 1982 an unusual bone fragment was discovered in Orce, Spain. A year later, the archaeologists declared that it was from a human child. If this was correct, then this would be the oldest human fossil in Europe. Some scientists created an entire man out of this fragment, called the "Orce Man." To the embarrassment of many, it was later found to be the skullcap of a 6-month old donkey!

• RHODESIAN MAN

The bones of three or four individuals were found in a zinc mine in what was then Rhodesia. Unfortunately the bones were taken out by the miners, not archaeologists. When the bones came to the British Museum of Natural History, they were reconstructed and displayed for many years. However, the museum staff who reconstructed the skeleton were not familiar with human anatomy, and since the hipbones were smashed, they displayed them as stooped-down figures. Not until some anatomists examined the skeleton was it shown to be just a modern man.

• JAVA MAN

Eugene Dubois, a Dutch anatomist, went to the Dutch Indies to look for fossils. On the banks of the Solo River, he found a human-like fossil of a tooth, the upper part of a skull, and a thigh bone. This "missing link" has been advertised for a long time. However, the tooth and thigh bone turned out to be human, and the skull was from a giant gibbon.

In encyclopedias, magazines, and other sources of information, these "ancient ancestors" are presented as if the bones found were actually the real thing. As a matter of fact, they still haven't found a single fossil of an ancient predecessor of man.