We're still looking for the missing link.
It's been missing for millions of years.
The Creationists and Evolutionists have been looking for it for less time.
Every few years or so this or that shocking discovery is made.
It's usually identified as an earlier descendant of homo sapiens.
The scientists give their discovery a fancy name.
Sisterpithecus or Grandpamithecus or Unclesissicus.
Then we wait for the next shocking discovery.
The chain of discoveries continues for centuries.
Bacteria become Amoebas--then they become Fish...then the FISH become Monkeys...then all of these successors develop into...HUMANS??
This horizontal (or vertical) chain has always puzzled me.
It sounds too fishy.
It sounds too pure and simple.
Where does a Higher Force/Supreme Being/God fit into this chain?
Is there really any missing link?
Where is the proof that this or that body part transformed (evolved) into this or that body part?
The dog has now been reported to be closer genetically to man than our simian cousins.
Darwin was right on the Ascent part.
But I doubt that it was from other creatures that we made our ascent.
Maybe I am missing something.
Discovered: the missing link that solves a mystery of evolution
Alok Jha, science correspondent
Thursday April 6, 2006
The Guardian
"Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago."
Palaeontologists have said that the find, a crocodile-like animal called the Tiktaalik roseae and described today in the journal Nature, could become an icon of evolution in action - like Archaeopteryx, the famous fossil that bridged the gap between reptiles and birds."
"The find is the first complete evidence of an animal that was on the verge of the transition from water to land. "The find is a dream come true," said Ted Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Sciences."
It's been missing for millions of years.
The Creationists and Evolutionists have been looking for it for less time.
Every few years or so this or that shocking discovery is made.
It's usually identified as an earlier descendant of homo sapiens.
The scientists give their discovery a fancy name.
Sisterpithecus or Grandpamithecus or Unclesissicus.
Then we wait for the next shocking discovery.
The chain of discoveries continues for centuries.
Bacteria become Amoebas--then they become Fish...then the FISH become Monkeys...then all of these successors develop into...HUMANS??
This horizontal (or vertical) chain has always puzzled me.
It sounds too fishy.
It sounds too pure and simple.
Where does a Higher Force/Supreme Being/God fit into this chain?
Is there really any missing link?
Where is the proof that this or that body part transformed (evolved) into this or that body part?
The dog has now been reported to be closer genetically to man than our simian cousins.
Darwin was right on the Ascent part.
But I doubt that it was from other creatures that we made our ascent.
Maybe I am missing something.
Discovered: the missing link that solves a mystery of evolution
Alok Jha, science correspondent
Thursday April 6, 2006
The Guardian
"Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago."
Palaeontologists have said that the find, a crocodile-like animal called the Tiktaalik roseae and described today in the journal Nature, could become an icon of evolution in action - like Archaeopteryx, the famous fossil that bridged the gap between reptiles and birds."
"The find is the first complete evidence of an animal that was on the verge of the transition from water to land. "The find is a dream come true," said Ted Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Sciences."
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