[BaseballMan]

I do not believe a "missing link" will ever be found. However, if there is one creative mind at the core of creation, it would be entirely likely that animals and human beings would share many characteristics (physiological systems, etc.). Also, according to jesus, a tiny sparrow, in our day let us say a 50 cent gold fish given out at a school carnival, cannot be flushed down the commode outside the care of god.

If you wish to use the Words of God as your reference then you must know that He also said each will reproduce according to their own kind. Never did He say I will make a monkey and it will soon become a man. That God takes care of the sparrows tells us that if He cares for an animal that insignificant, how much greater does He care for the one He made in His image.

And of course we will share common characteristics. After all, we were made by the same Creator. Normally, when a human creates something he/she deems good, you will see similar characteristics in the way they have created other things. Take for example a car and a boat. They are different, but yet have many similar characteristics because it works. But we'd never say that both were once a train and evolved into cars and boats over time because the train ran in a city or near the water. Nor would we say that all of these things just evolved from a small piece of wood which turned into a wagon wheel soon to be a Lamborghini in today's time.