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Don’t we have about 3 billions bits of info in our genome? If our supposed closest relative differs by 4% (at least) that’s 120 million bits of info separating us and they’re looking for a (as in 1) missing link. If the theory of evolution is true, shouldn’t they’re be more than 1 link along the great divide?

I’m not suggesting there’s 120 million disinct creatures that are somehow missing but suggesting there’s just an elusive single link seems ridiculous. Also, if evolution is true, why have the only links “found” been exposed as hoaxes?

Mathematically evolution thru natural selection and chance seems ridiculous. Mankind will never know exactly what happen millions of years ago, but it is fun trying. The evolutionists are really ridiculous but don't try to tell them that. As far I as I can tell h.sapien is about 200,000 years old. If you met a person from 200,000 years ago he would look like a modern human. No gradual changes that an evolutionary theory requires.

varmintman: "That's the part of it which makes the least sense. God does not use broken tools. "

central_va: "As far I as I can tell h.sapien is about 200,000 years old.
If you met a person from 200,000 years ago he would look like a modern human.
No gradual changes that an evolutionary theory requires."

Hayride: "If our supposed closest relative differs by 4% (at least) that’s 120 million bits of info separating us and they’re looking for a (as in 1) missing link.
If the theory of evolution is true, shouldn’t they’re be more than 1 link along the great divide?"

to all: how can you look at these transitional fossils and still pretend they don't exist?

(A) Pan troglodytes, chimpanzee, modern
(B) Australopithecus africanus, STS 5, 2.6 My
(C) Australopithecus africanus, STS 71, 2.5 My
(D) Homo habilis, KNM-ER 1813, 1.9 My
(E) Homo habilis, OH24, 1.8 My
(F) Homo rudolfensis, KNM-ER 1470, 1.8 My
(G) Homo erectus, Dmanisi cranium D2700, 1.75 My
(H) Homo ergaster (early H. erectus), KNM-ER 3733, 1.75 My
(I) Homo heidelbergensis, "Rhodesia man," 300,000 - 125,000 y
(J) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Ferrassie 1, 70,000 y
(K) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Chappelle-aux-Saints, 60,000 y
(L) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Le Moustier, 45,000 y
(M) Homo sapiens sapiens, Cro-Magnon I, 30,000 y
(N) Homo sapiens sapiens, modern

to varmintman: How can a "tool" which produced humans be "broken"?

to central_va: 200,000 years ago there were a number of "not-fully-humans" walking the earth, Neanderthals for one.

to Hayride: Depending on what exactly you count, human and chimpanzee DNA is 98.4% the same, meaning about 50 million mutations separate us from them.
The rate of mutations (nearly all harmless) among humans has been measured as highly variable, up to 50 per generation.
With chimps mutating at the same rate, we are looking at 100 mutations to separate each new generation of pre-humans and chimps.
This suggests something over 500,000 generations since the human-chimp common ancestor, or 5+ million years (chimps begin to mature at age 8).

Other studies using different methods arrived at similar results.