What should the missing link look like?

Question

Many transitional fossils have been denied by creationists as either being just a monkey or just a human - they need to see an part ape part human - so what should it look like.

Anthropoligists thought they knew what they were looking for and after looking at the actual evidence they had to change their minds. Turns out we evolved even differently than they had hypothesized. So what has to show up for the Creationsts to change theirs?

Answer 1

http://www.prometheussociety.org/articles/DaCapo.html

quote:

"Aside from possible mental changes that might result, we could also expect two important physical changes. One is an increase in neotony. Neotony means that the individual retains infant-like characteristics throughout its life span. When a human infant is compared to a chimpanzee or gorilla infant, their appearance turns out to be amazingly alike. But as each species matures, chimps and gorillas change greatly, whereas man continues to resemble his infant self.

The second physical change is likely to be more upright stature with the long human leg and striding walk. Much is made of man’s opposing thumb, his stereoscopic color vision, his capacity for language, and so on; but his evolutionary success has been as much the result of his striding walk as all the more salient characteristics."

Answer 2

How can it be just "a" missing link? Shouldn't there be a steady progression of the changing links. I'm serious here. I'm trying to understand.

Answer 3

Hard-core creationists won't change their mind. Ever. It goes the same way with hard-core atheists and so on.

Some people are just too thick headed to see the facts.

Answer 4

George Bush is the missing link--don't look further

Answer 5

they won't change their minds, they are mostly closed minded on the issue

Answer 6

We may never know.