Have you heard of the "Missing Link"? A title like that makes it sound as though if we could just find one more link between apes and men we'd have it made. Not true. The truth is, they're all missing! Astounding as it may seem, these so-called ape men have been the product of an overactive imagination. Consider the following famous cases of mistaken identity and hoaxes...

1850 "Neanderthal Man"
Turns out to be Homo-Sapien (human) with calcium accumulation, lack of iodine, and a vitamin D deficiency due to the harsh inland environment.

1912 "Piltdown Man"
This one sparked over 500 doctoral dissertations before it was revealed as a deliberate hoax in 1950. It was a stained ape's jaw attached to a human skull. But for 40 years it was the leading evidence for evolution!

1925 "Nebraska Man"
Someone found a tooth. From that tooth they imagined a jaw. From the jaw they conjured up a skull. The skull led to fantasies about a skeleton. Flesh was superimposed onto the skeleton to make an ape-man (male and female!). It was this tooth that Darrow used to discredit Bryan at the Scopes trial. Only one problem...besides the lack of any resemblance to scientific processes... the tooth was actually from an extinct pig! Nice try though.

1940's "Peking Man"
A bunch of bashed-in monkey skulls led to this discovery. Ape-men? Not with tools! Nope, the humans ate the brains much like some do to this day! How many strikes is that now?

1980's "Java Man"
Formerly one of the "5 facts of Evolution", Java Man started off as a collection of unrelated bones (some human, some unknown). The human parts were thrown out, as they obviously did not belong there (millions of years too early of course). Well, Java "Man" turned out to be Java "giant gibbon". It's not even a surprise any more is it?

What about "Lucy"?
The latest find in the quest to substantiate this theory is Australopithecus. While it goes without saying that evolutionists are already 100% sure that this is "it", what does the evidence show? First of all, many other African animals have been found among the remains of "Lucy"...but no apes. Why? Perhaps it is because this is just another extinct animal previously undiscovered and mistaken for some sort of half man/ half ape. It is also interesting to note that human tools have been found under those remains, and under those tools... HUMANS! To the evolutionist who interprets the geologic column as forming over millions of years with the unevolved animals at the bottom and higher level organisms at the top (see "Fossils" below), this would seem to imply that humans are the missing link between apes and "Lucy"!. Only time will tell... again.