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Harold Cook discovered Nebraska Man, in 1922. The ?find? was a single molar fossilized tooth. From this was constructed a half-man and half-ape. The Illustrated London News of that year had a two-page representation of Mr. and Mrs. Nebraska Man to include an authentic environmental setting. They were depicted as hairy, bent over, and brutish in appearance. This was presented as factual. Later it was discovered that the single tooth used for the reconstruction belonged to an extinct pig! Nebraska man was judged authentic by evolutionists of that time and aged at one million years of age. Nebraska man was also used in the famous Scopes Monkey Trial (1925) to belittle the "ignorant" creationist, William Jennings Bryan. (In this case a pig made a monkey out of an evolutionist)


Those that hold to the evolution story have been looking in the fossil record for links between past and present species. (Not just ape to human, but between all major kinds ? this too is a very important point). It is not a case of ?a? missing link, but billions of missing links.

If evolution were true how could one tell in the fossil record just what specific animal had been found?

Answer: One could not!

Explanation: You couldn?t classify various animals (and all other organics) because they would all blur together. If all of the billions of transitions (links) were found you could tell a snake from a lizard, a jellyfish from a trout, etceteras.


How does the creationist view the fossil record?

Answer: Primarily as a graveyard attesting to the global flood.

The creationist is not looking for the missing links, because the links were never there in the first place. Since they were never there in the first place, they can?t be missing. The following quote of Charles Darwin is quite interesting:

"As by this theory, innumerable transitional forms must have existed. Why do we not find them imbedded in the crust of the earth? Why is all nature not in confusion instead of being as we see them, well-defined species? Geological research does not yield the infinitely many fine gradations between past and present species required by the theory; and this is the most obvious of the many objections which may be argued against it. The explanation lies, however, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record." ("The Origin of Species," Vol. 2, 6th Ed., p. 49, R. West, 1914, New York New York)

This statement was made approximately 150 years ago and the ?links? are still missing.

Why are they still missing?

Answer: They were never there in the first place!