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.
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