there are no missing links......keep up with the times....there are slow smooth transitions upward during times of plenty...then more abrupt ones which are caused by environmental changes and or catastrophes....but they are there....in black and white and the whole process from amobea to man has been going on for billions of years...WAKE UP. you can believe in God and still embrace tangible realities......they are not mutually exclusive.
Where did I say anything about creationism?
Evolution is a catch-all term for theories.
Should we usher in the theories of man made global warming and homosexuality as a birth defect into public schools? The dominant culture does not want those theories questioned either.
I don't believe that we do students any favor when scientists pretend to have all the answers. Research into the origins of life and the origins of the universe continue and will continue. Some student may be inspired by such questions to devote his/her life to such research.
The book is not closed.