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Unknown Enemy
Note that you only provide examples from human evolution. If you bothered to look at other species (there is a hell of a lot more than one species on Earth, you know), you would come to a different conclusion. Whether the archaeopteryx is a feathered dinosaur or the first bird remains undecided, but what is generally agreed upon is that the archeopteryx is the link between dinosaurs and birds. Isn't that enough of a "missing link"? Furthermore, it has been noted that there is a lot less fossils of humanoids than other animals - it is guessed that this is probably because they had enough intelligence to avoid the tar-pits and other places ideal for fossilisation. If that is the case (though that of course is arguable), then humanoids would be a very bad choice of proof for either side of the evolution debate.Originally posted by Knitewing
Macro evolution, changes between species, is unproven. Not one fossile of a "missing link" has ever been found.
Oh, and the argument that life only had 400 million years to develop on Earth is just plain silly - there's fossil evidence that life on Earth nearly went extinct 700 million years ago . And stromatolites appeared around 2.8 billion years ago - since we've got fossils of the buggers, this is as close to a fact as you can get with such ancient history.