The Missing Link and the Irreducible Complexity of the Eye

[Pat Mustard]

I was born in Washington D.C. and practically grew up in the Museum of Man and Natural History. Yet I never learned that the so called “missing link” was found in 1924. I speak of Australopithecus africanus, aka Southern Ape Man.  This is said to be a direct ancestor of modern man. So why do we speak of the missing link as if it’s still missing?

Although Darwin expressed perplexity over the eye, scientists have since fully documented the evolution of the eye. Yet we allow theists to wave the eye before us as the bane of evolution.

Could it be because the textbooks in public schools are written in Texas, the buckle of the Bible belt, that cesspool of undigested lies, that our children remain ignorant of the advances of science?

In answer to your first question, it's because every time an evolutionary intermediary (humanity today is actually one too, unless we die out without evolutionary heirs) is found, up pops a creatard to bleat "oh, look there's a gap. Checkmate atheists!"

In response to your second question, I'm not an expert on US pedagogical literature, but if it's anything like what I've heard and read about US history textbooks, it's probably even worse than that.