I actually was at the top of my class...
In regards to the fact that only creationists argue they aren’t missing links, let’s look at just the ones that have been said were the human/ape “missing link.”
Piltdown Man (England, 1912)—This skull was from an ape and jaw of a human. In the 1920’s, they were found to have been purposefully scraped with a wire brush to be made to look old.
Nebraska Man (US, 1922)—In the late 1920’s, they found it was a pig’s tooth that was discovered
Australopithecus or “Lucy”—Is 100% ape.
Neanderthal—Is 100% human.
I learned all that from my biology class and it was in public school too!
I really doubt that. Your list is straight from the creationists websites and is posted repeatedly here by many others!
"Piltdown Man (England, 1912)—This skull was from an ape and jaw of a human. In the 1920’s, they were found to have been purposefully scraped with a wire brush to be made to look old."
PM was never considered as a true specimen by the scientific community. The scientific community was always skeptical and kept testing it for authenticity. When suitable techniques became available, the scientific community tested it and proved it a fake.
Perhaps you should do some research.
A mistake was made, it was not widely thought to be a true specimen and the record was corrected by the scientific community a few years later.
Not. Do you just make this stuff up?
mitochondrial DNA studies indicates that Neanderthals were not a subspecies of Homo sapiens.
Lucy was more than 3 million years old. Neanderthal was less than 1 million years old. In between, among others, was Homo Erectus and Home Habilis.