Whenever you're into "just a theory", "hoaxes" and "missing links", you're only displaying your own ignorance and exposure to false anti-science propaganda to justify a fundamentalist reinterpretation of a version of an ancient nationalist myth that never had anything to do with science. Replace "just a theory" by proper vocabulary and learn about it: "scientific theory", "hypothesis". Replace "missing link" by "transitional fossil" (there are many more than you would admit). Despite the scarcity of fossils. You also missed the fact that the record is also in the genetic code. The scientific theory is an explanatory model that is adapted to fit the observations, the evidence. Based on many working hypotheses and facts discovered about the natural world. It includes natural selection.
The idea that Genesis is actual history, or that the scripture collection is inerrant, "has an impeccable track record", have always been false. Contradictions abound and we know how those traditions formed, were written by elites, compiled by other elites, translated by other elites, selected and reinterpreted by other elites. Human traditions, politics and processes, circular arguments and other fallacies. And the modern exploitation of the gullible.
"crusader" comment is gold and it requires perseverence to take the time to expose such a summary in response to a dumb standard #pratt statement crying "I blindly embrace ignorance and am too proud and comfortable in my delusions to open my eyes to reality."