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<blockquote data-quote="MANTI5" data-source="post: 7665563" data-attributes="member: 627711">&quot;However, have not scientists found the necessary “links” between apelike animals and man? Not according to the evidence. Science Digest speaks of “the lack of a missing link to explain the relatively sudden appearance of modern man.”&nbsp; Newsweek observed: “The missing link between man and the apes .*.*. is merely the most glamorous of a whole hierarchy of phantom creatures. In the fossil record, missing links are the rule.”Because there are no links, “phantom creatures” have to be fabricated from minimal evidence and passed off as though they had really existed. That explains why the following contradiction could occur, as reported by a science magazine: “Humans evolved in gradual steps from their apelike ancestors and not, as some scientists contend, in sudden jumps from one form to another. .*.*. But other anthropologists, working with much the same data, reportedly have reached exactly the opposite conclusion.”Thus we can better understand the observation of respected anatomist Solly Zuckerman who wrote in the Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: “The search for the proverbial ‘missing link’ in man’s evolution, that holy grail of a never dying sect of anatomists and biologists, allows speculation and myth to flourish as happily to-day as they did 50 years ago and more.”&nbsp; He noted that, all too often, facts were ignored, and instead, what was currently popular was championed in spite of evidence to the contrary.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MANTI5, post: 7665563, member: 627711"] "However, have not scientists found the necessary “links” between apelike animals and man? Not according to the evidence. Science Digest speaks of “the lack of a missing link to explain the relatively sudden appearance of modern man.” Newsweek observed: “The missing link between man and the apes .*.*. is merely the most glamorous of a whole hierarchy of phantom creatures. In the fossil record, missing links are the rule.” Because there are no links, “phantom creatures” have to be fabricated from minimal evidence and passed off as though they had really existed. That explains why the following contradiction could occur, as reported by a science magazine: “Humans evolved in gradual steps from their apelike ancestors and not, as some scientists contend, in sudden jumps from one form to another. .*.*. But other anthropologists, working with much the same data, reportedly have reached exactly the opposite conclusion.” Thus we can better understand the observation of respected anatomist Solly Zuckerman who wrote in the Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: “The search for the proverbial ‘missing link’ in man’s evolution, that holy grail of a never dying sect of anatomists and biologists, allows speculation and myth to flourish as happily to-day as they did 50 years ago and more.” He noted that, all too often, facts were ignored, and instead, what was currently popular was championed in spite of evidence to the contrary." [/QUOTE]

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