The Missing Link

THE MISSING LINK

Once a missing link chose to ignore the scientific evidence.
The decision was easier than it might seem, since the missing link’s understanding of the scientific evidence was rather limited to begin with. There wasn’t a great deal it needed to ignore.
What it was certain it did understand was that life was good for missing links. They had the run of creation, no question. This one didn’t know of another living thing that had been so blessed. Nor did it see any reason to believe the good fortune of its own kind in this regard would ever change.
How could it? Hadn’t all creatures come into existence in a pecking order of perfection? And if the missing link was more perfect than anything it saw around it, that must indicate that things were the way they were meant to be. To think otherwise was to suppose that the world of the missing link might eventually be superseded by something better, and this meant the world was not complete and perfect from Day One, which in turn meant the missing link might not be the most perfect of beings.
What nonsense, this one snorted to itself. Certain facts of life would always be the same, and the triumph of missing-linkness had been one of them. What upset it most was the tendency among some missing links to ask questions that shouldn’t be asked: misguided, perverse efforts to point out supposed imperfections in the species that might prove to be a problem down the line. But these supposed imperfections, if they even existed, must actually be part of some larger grand design or else they wouldn’t exist in the first place, would they?
To those who protested that their questions were actually motivated by a concern for the future of the missing link, this one would reply with irritation: “Everything you say is just part of another mutation conspiracy, and you’ve all been duped by it. Wake up before it’s too late! What was good for our ancestors is good enough for us and will be good enough for our descendants to the end of time. Change isn’t our concern. We have only one mission here on earth.”
“And what is that?”
“Making sure that we, the crown of creation, remain that forever. In short, preserving the genome of the missing link against all mutation!”