forget that his/her position is just a belief that no God exists, while denigrating those who have a belief in God, but cannot recognize the hypocrisy of their stance.
The link between a believer, an agnostic, and an atheistic, is that all three are founded upon a belief, making them surprisingly similar, with each projecting a logical thought-form to uphold their differing position. This brings this little essay to its title, The Missing Link. What is the missing link binding all three beliefs? Their dissimilarity potentially makes them into warring factions, while their indirect similarity is rarely, if ever, discussed. Even if their similarity – all based upon a belief – were discussed, each would still hold onto the content of their belief, creating insurmountable barriers as each would uphold their belief as the correct one, with the other two being misguided or just plain wrong. To discover the missing link, rather than focusing upon the content dissimilarities, focus instead upon their similarity, which is the belief: not upon the content of the belief, but upon the ability of each to have a belief.
That ability, amongst many other things, is what separates humans from the animal kingdom. Humans have this wonderful ability to hold and maintain a belief. Meaning, we have the ability of unrestricted thought and by that thinking, accept or create a belief. On the other hand, animals are limited or restricted to reaction only: they cannot think they simply react on an instinctual level that is security focused, normally fostered by memory. Where does this wonderful ability come from, or how can humans think and animals cannot? They both can see and know what is seen but animals can only react to the knowing, whilst humans