Transitional Forms?

Did this happen? What is the evidence?

Gigantopithecus blacki:
Gigantopithecus was originally discovered, by Professor Gustav von Koenigswald in 1935, when the professor bought a set of fossil teeth in Hong Kong from a Chinese druggist selling what he claimed were "dragon's teeth" for medicinal purposes. Once thought to be in the evolutionary line from Ape to Man, Gigantopithecus has been completely removed from this line [Time Magazine, 11/7/77] and is accepted as a very large extinct ape.

Ramapithecus:
Ramapithecus was named after a two-inch piece of jawbone and dental fragments found in North India and East Africa beginning in 1932. Once hailed as an ancestor of Australopithecus and then humans, Ramapithecus has been completely removed from the "evolutionary line" [Science Digest, April, 1986] and is now thought to be an extinct orangutan-like primate.

Australopithecus [including A. africanus, A. afarensis ("Lucy"), A. ramidus, and A. ananemsis]:
"Lucy" consists of a skeleton that is 40% complete, and was discovered in Ethiopia by Donald Johanson in 1974. She apparently was 3 feet 6 inches tall and weighed 50 pounds. It is widely agreed that the skull of Lucy is that of an ape, as is the lower skeleton. The basis for placing Lucy on an evolutionary line was the knee joint, which was said to have been that of a creature who walked upright.
Two to three kilometers away and 60 meters lower!:
Donald Johanson later admitted that the famed knee joint of "Lucy" was not found with the rest of the skeleton, but instead was found 2-3 kilometers away and 60 meters lower in the earth! So the knee joint cannot be used to support an upright walking ape-man.
Now removed:
Australopithecus has since been removed from the evolutionary line by many evolutionary believers, including Richard Leakey [The Origin of Humankind]. It should be noted that even upright walking does not make a primate an "ape-man" because modern-day chimpanzees walk upright.

Homo habilis:
This creature was discovered in the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania by Donald Johanson [Director of the Institute of Human Origins at University of California, Berkeley]. It was described in Nature magazine in 1987 [ Nature, 327:205 (1987).] This creature was said to be more advanced than Australopithecus, and was given the same genus as humans ["Homo"] by Johanson, while other paleoanthropologists said it was more ape-like and similar to Australopithecus. Both Australopithecus and Homo habilis had long curved fingers and toes for swinging from branch to branch and would be inconsistent with human locomotion.

Nebraska Man:
[click image for a larger image]
Illustration of Nebraska man done for the
Illustrated London News
by Amedee Forestier

The entirety of "Nebraska man" is based upon a single tooth. This tooth was received by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn [head of the department of Palaeontology at New York's American Museum of Natural History] in February 1922. This case was used for the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" held in 1925 at Dayton, Tennessee.
The truth comes out:
The American Museum Novitiates on January 6, 1923 reported that the tooth was not even related to the primates. A further search of the original archeological site was done, and by 1927 it was concluded that the tooth belonged to Prosthennops, an extinct genus related to the modern peccary or wild pig.
The findings that the tooth was that of a pig was reported in: Science (1927, 66:579). and Encyclopaedia Britannica (1929, 14:767).

The Fully Human fossils:

Homo erectus:
In 1985, Alan Walker and Richard Leakey reported on the fossilized remains of an apparently 12-year old male found in Kenya. The skeleton and cranium were so similar to modern man that the two men stated that the average pathologist couldn't tell the difference. But because the fossil was dated at 1.6 million years, because of its location in the geologic column [click here to see evidence of fully human activity throughout the geologic column!], it was called an ancestor of modern man.

Neanderthal Man:
Is classified as fully Homo sapiens by paleoanthropologists. Neanderthal man is so-named due to the finding of human remains in 1856 in the Neander Valley near Dusseldorf, Germany. At that time, Neanderthal man was considered the "missing link". Actually, the Neanderthal man's brain size is larger than the average human!

Cro-Magnon Man:
A fully human Homo sapiens, Cro-Magnon man is so named because the remains were found in over 70 sites, where elaborate cave-paintings are found. "Cro-Magnon" means "great big" and refers to the size of the caves the remains were found in.