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::I agree, the two terms "transitional fossil" and "missing link" describe the same phenomena. If anything, we should put the term "missing link" in the first sentence of the lede as it probably is the most used (if not correct) term. [[User:Petter Bøckman|Petter Bøckman]] ([[User talk:Petter Bøckman|talk]]) 09:49, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
:::Although they describe the same phenomena, the term ''missing link'' gives a very different explanation of the phenomena than transitional fossils, i.e., the [[great chain of being]]. This article is supposed to be about scientific ideas, but it contains a section about religious and historical ideas. In my opinion this section does not fit, since it leads in a different direction (religion, pseudoscience, etc.) than the main article. To be expanded, categorized, and placed in context (e.g., [[creationism]]), the section must be split into a separate article. [[Flood geology]] is not a section in the [[geological history]] article because the two topics give very different explanations of the same phenomena. Generally, a separate article is be more effective and less confusing to a general reader because the scientific concept would be explained in the context of the lay concept, rather than explaining the lay concept in the context of the scientific concept. --[[User:Beefyt|beefyt]] ([[User talk:Beefyt|talk]]) 20:32, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
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