why has no one found the missing link?

Question

is it because we haven't evolved from apes or is it because we are looking in the wrong place

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No scientist has ever suggested we have evolved from apes!
This is a total fallacy.
The theory is, that we have the same biological ancestors as modern ape do , but in no way have we ever evolved from apes


SO WHERE HAVE WE COME FROM THEN!!!!!!

Answer 1

Read some books about evolution with an open mind. I used to get two books to read and compare. One favored evolution, and the other favored creation. I did that with many pairs of books. I do the same with other subjects. To be objective, one must see what both sides say in a debate. I found after such a study that creationists had no evidence at all for their views and misquoted scientists, took their words out of context, and exaggerated debates among evolutionists. That is lying to be blunt, and it discredits the men who do it and their beliefs. Creationist use bad science and pseudo-science for more discredit.

Answer 2

No scientist has ever suggested we have evolved from apes!
This is a total fallacy.
The theory is, that we have the same biological ancestors as modern ape do , but in no way have we ever evolved from apes.

Answer 3

There is no such thing as "the missing link". The phrase is used by journalists, not by scientists. It implies there was a specific point where evolution "jumped" from apes to humans, which isn't the case.

In reality, evolution is a smooth graduation over many millions of years. At no point was any creature more different from its parent than you are from yours. Lots of tiny changes over a very long period of time add up to the differences we see today between us and our nearest relatives, the chimps.

However, what we have found are hundreds of fossils of various intermediate steps in human evolution. See http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/ for some examples. Of course, there are still some gaps - we don't have fossils from all of the stages. This is because fossilization is a very rare process, especially in the jungle environment our ancestors lived in. Also, it's a big planet and there are plenty of places still left to look - and when we do look we often find interesting specimens, as the recent discovery of Selam, the fossil of an Australopithecus afarensis child, proves.

Answer 4

Fossils are relatively rare. the conditions to create a fossil have to be *just right*.....It is only because there have been so many billions of creatures alive, since the dawn of time, that we find so many fossils today.

Unfortunatley there will never be enough fossils to convince the 'ignorami religiosa'. They will always ask for another fossil between the current ones that we have.....and, if that is found, they will demand two more fossils to fit into the gaps left....and so on, and so forth.
Oh, and we didnt evolve from apes.....we all evolved from a commonape like ancestor, as proven by the many, many characteristics that we share:
Gentics, Digestive tract, parasites, dentition, vision, the grasp response, audition, the brain... and intelligence {something that seems to have skipped a few generations amongst the hardline religious communities}

Answer 5

Basically it depends on your definition of "missing link". There have been many archaeological finds of the remains of creatures which have some characteristics in common with apes and some like man. People are always looking for the fill-in species, but as we find more, the gaps that are being filled in just get smaller.

Basically, if you don't want to believe we share an ancestor with apes, then you won't, whatever the evidence. If you're willing to believe it, the evidence is there.

Also, there's the fact that there would probably have been relatively few of these creatures, they'd have been in a geographically small area, and there's an awful lot of world (even a lot of Africa) to search looking for their bones - and that assumes they weren't destroyed by scavengers etc etc.

Answer 6

Sure, there's a missing link... this question proves it...

Picture it as a jigsaw puzzle - there's a piece missing. Until you have SPECIFIC proof it happened one way or another, that piece will always be missing.

How come we haven't found it?

Who knows.... maybe it's the wrong place, maybe it's that it has sunk so far down into the earth we can't reach it, maybe the Yeti/Bigfoot/Sasquatch/... is hiding it,...

For the alternate theory, where's specific proof? Words in a book isn't good enough.... Anyone can write words in a book.

Answer 7

There is no single link but rather a series of many interconnecting steps. If i want to travel from London to Beijing there are many actions that i must do and eaqch one is necesary to get there.

You must also remember that both apes and humans are fairly recent in geological history and because both are land dwelling the chances of preservation are very small.

Answer 8

They have! George Bush is alive and well.

I don't know wny they haven't found it. Perhaps they have but some religious nutters got to it first. Maybe the fossils never formed so are not there to find or perhaps it is still out there to find. Who knows? not me that's for sure.

I've listened to the creationist arguement and it is so full of holes it could be called a seive. Some people are so nieve.

Answer 9

Missing link to what? The coelocanth was found in 1938. It had been known from fossils dating back 400 million years. The coelocanth was believed to be the first fish to crawl from the sea and evolve into reptiles, mammals and eventually humans. There is preserved one in the natural History museum in London if you are interested.

Answer 10

No because it would just be called "the link"

Joking aside, I don't believe that they will ever find it as I do not believe that there ever was one.
I did not evolve from an ape, I evolved (If at all) from a primitive version of man