Is there really any such thing as 'the missing link' or is it just that it hasn't been found yet?

Question

Some religious people say that man didn't come from ape because no one has ever yet found the missing link but is that true?

I mean wouldn't it be reasonable to suggest that most dead animals or creature's bodies never get preserved properly in order to escape the ravages of time, environment, and decay etc.

So maybe Charles Darwin did have a point and his theories not too far removed from the truth after all.

Answer 1

Man did not come from apes. Common ancestor. Why must we keep pointing this out?

Answer 2

Never say never.  Just because we haven't found it yet, doesn't mean we never will.

Answer 3

There is a missing link.

Heres a trick from the start.

0 1 2 3 (unknown) 5 6 7 and so on. It's obvious what (unknown) is. It just hasn't been found.

Evolution seems to be proven already, if not there's a lot of evidence to cover it.

Answer 4

i think there are people who want to make bigfoot the missing link

the theories are all over the place on this one

the latest ive heard is from remote veiwer Ed Dames. bigfoot is a holographic image with mass.

as for man not coming from APE, I am a contender for that belief. Adam and eve were created by the Gods. or the godhead. i am a witness of jesus, so i know there is a God in heaven. the politics and religion of the universe is not limited to planet earth, except that God created it all. or has control over it all. either way.

nope the leap from darwin to evolution does not prove scientifically that there is no God.  

Answer 5

EVERYTHING that has been found, IS a missing "link". Only it's not missing now. Do you know how many "links" there are for just one species? Not to mention approximately 4.5 billion years of evolution. So of course a lot is still missing and may never be found. We can still see the process with what we have.

Answer 6

it's a creationists myth.

every species is transitional, because there's no planned outcome.

Answer 7

Myself, I think we waste way too much time worrying about how we got here, and not nearly enough time worrying about those who are already here.

It's a shame...

Answer 8

Yes, fossilization is a very rare event -- especially for creatures which don't live under water. I have personally found hundreds of fossilized clam shells, but never a single leaf.

The idea of any "missing link" is just a default excuse for Creationists to deny Evolution. Any links between species, when found, would first be denied, then grudgingly accepted -- then they would ask for the missing link between the new discovery and later forms.

It is a never-ending attempt to discredit science with trivia.

Answer 9

no such thing as the missing link.

its not like 1 2 3 4, its more like 1.001 1.002. they're all transitional

Answer 10

Actually the current problem is there are too many candidates that were possible ancestors.

Determining exactly which lineage humans share is now the problem.

The prevailing attitude is that bipedal apes demonstrate adaptive radiation, common observation in nature.

Where as previously the bipeds were treated as a special singular branch leading up to humans.

Now though we have so many specimens that the thinking is that not all bipeds that existed would qualify as a human ancestor where as previously most consider that any bipedal hominids had to be a human ancestor.

It is a case of too many not a case of not enough.

Oh and for the record humans ARE apes.

It is how we are classified.

Answer 11

The "missing link" is a very old concept which has been overrun by evidence.  Creationists are notorious for living in the distant past as far as science goes.

Answer 12

The missing link is a prime example of moving goal posts.  We have several fossils that show a intermediate somewhere between apes and humans, but for every fossil we find, there are now two gaps.

Here's the best example.

What creationists fail to realize is genetics has long since show a very clear genetic link between humans and other apes.  We have much more than bones these days, but they are still stuck in the 19th century.

Answer 13

there is not or we would see some links theres no link between any animals or animals to humans charles darwin said if cells are proven to be complex then his theroy falls apart. guess what cells are extremely complicated. and how did something come from nothing? noone even darwin could answer that question. and something to think about if evolution was true then we are jst biproducts so that means our brains could be messed up so how can we trust what were thinking. evolution has been disproven many many times they just hide it because people do not want to answer to a higher athority. look around theres no way that everything in this world came from nothing. if we were jst a little closer to the sun the planet would have exploded in cells theres organisms that have a propellor that is extremely complicated i mean there is so much to disprove evolution its uncanning and evolution means theres nothing after death and were no better than animals but if there is a god we have purpose and something to look foward to after we die

EVOLUTION IS NOT A SCIENCE A SCIENCE NEEDS OBSERVATION THATS THE FIRST STEP OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD ITS A RELIGION JUST LIKE EVERY THING ELSE

Answer 14

Adam was created with language and the ability to name all the animals and even know what "Eve" meant (the mother of all living).  His son knew farming and created a city with streets and government.  Another fully understood animal husbandry.Adam's grandsons knew metallurgy, music, tent making, and many other things.  There were no cave men.

Even today, we have cave men.  They live in Australia, South America, Africa and other places.  People who refuse to live in cultured society are always considered cavemen, men with paint, skulls hanging around their necks, eating their dead, almost without clothing and hardly a language.   No, the missing link is still missing.........

Answer 15

We didn't come from apes - we came from an ancestor of both humans and apes...

The fossil record on everything is incomplete..just because it ain't there doesn't make it so...just ask any religious nut job about that concept

Answer 16

Or apes descended from man and Darwin is wrong.

This, too, is a theory.

Best regards.

Answer 17

Apes and humans came from a common ancestor.

We've got the links throughout the ascent of hominids. We can also be sure of how the apes' more successful evolutions to today's survivors went.

We don't have the common ancestor of both yet. We know when it lived (the Pleistocene) and we'll keep looking until we turn it up.

Answer 18

Ever heard of punctuated equilibrium? It is a theory scientist came up with because they know the fossil record does not support evolution. So they changed it, it is not widely accepted by many in the scientific community but it does match up better with the fossil record. Read Stephen J. Gould, he wrote a lot about punctuated equilibrium and admits that the fossil record does not match up with Darwin's gradualism.

You are correct in that most dead animals don't get preserved, it takes very rapid burial to get a fossil. We have fossils on every continent, large fossils such as whales, and dinosaurs. What do you think buried these large animals rapidly? Maybe a world wide flood. Keep searching, I am sure that if you study the evidence you will come to the logical conclusion that the Biblical record is correct and evolution is just a myth.  

Answer 19

The problem with this question is that the concept of "missing link" is nonsense.  Among the thousands of fossils discovered are any number of intermediates, which makes it noticeably easier to trace the evolutionary tree, but the genetic system is based on digital, not analog, storage, which means that a one-bit change in the code will have at least a minimum effect, but there is NO maximum: a mutation can activate all or part of an intron, or de-activate all or part of an exon, so as long as you have a mutant that is close enough to be able to breed with the original type, the change can be arbitrarily large.  Which means that a supposed "missing link" may simply never have existed.  Your point about preservation of remains is apt.  Evolution has been the cornerstone of science for a century because it makes predictions which are correct in every case; it is now also a proven fact, so there is no viable excuse to not believe in it.  

Answer 20

well we didnt

Answer 21

Dude it's ok... there are like 25 years of Jesus's life missing from text but people still think he exsisted

Answer 22

The missing links are STILL missing.

The evolution myth is being rejected by the truckloads.....