missing link

a man who is covered head to toe with thick and wiry hair. he’s so hairy, he’s the missing link that connects humans to apes.
joe: “d-mn, it’s 115 degrees out here. why doesn’t tom take off his shirt?”
d-ck “that poor b-st-rd is so hairy, he got tired of being called the missing link.”
to look at your video game rack, and realize one of your legend of zelda copies are missing.
“where the h-ll is my ocarina of time!? i have a missing link!”
see: george w. bush
hey look! we found the missing link between humans and monkeys!
creationists’ undisputed proof that evolution is 100% wrong. the standard reasoning is that, since not every single human being who has ever lived since before we were human beings has been dug up, we don’t know for 100% sure that they’re all -really- related.

resulting alternate postulations necessarily involve the sudden m-ss-extinction of one species, almost immediately followed by the magical and/or miraculous introduction of a new species – h-m- sapiens – by the creationist’s deity of choice, be it g-d or aliens.

despite the fact that this “theory” cannot hold up to a tiny fraction of the rigor they grace the theory of evolution with, proponents of intelligent design often fervently insist that the “missing link” in the chain of evolution is undeniable proof that the theory of evolution is entirely unfounded, and that their highly unlikely postulate of intelligent design must be the only logical solution.

in reality, the “missing link” represents but one piece of missing evidence among millions of pieces of existing evidence for evolution. this can be contrasted to the almost complete lack of any evidence whatsoever for the proposed alternate theory of intelligent design, as well as the willful ignorance of any physical evidence that does in fact exist (which is commonly dismissed by arguments such as “lol the devil put it there”).

the field of psychology explains that this type of reasoning has its roots in a phenomenon known as the “confirmation bias”, which is the tendency of a person to seek out and interpret information which enforces their predrawn conclusions and reject information which challenges said conclusions. the confirmation bias can be found at the heart of many junk sciences in which conclusions are drawn before any physical evidence is gathered to lead one to that conclusion.
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creationist: it’s the missing link! the answer must be intelligent design!
the act of waking up after a long and fruitful night of partying; and someone you didnt even know walks by (preferably a door way) to go to the bathroom.
“d-mn dude last night was crazy”

“h-ll yea”

“hey who the f-ck was that?”

“iunno”

“missing link!!”
a hypothetical primate that fills the evolutionary gap in between humans and apes
i don’t think this fossil is from the missing-link.
the inexplicable phenomenon, when for no rational reason…you go a whole day without taking a poo.
nick felt perfectly normal, yet he was acutely aware of not having taken a dump nearly two days now. where was this missing link?”

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