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THE COURAGE OF THE FA I T H F U L

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t h ropologists have revealed that A u s t r a l o p i t h e c u sHomo habilisand
Homo ere c t u slived at diff e rent parts of the world at the same time. 1 5
M o re o v e r, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo ere c t u s
have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens neandarthalensis
and Homo sapiens sapiens(modern man) co-existed in the same re-
g i o n . 1 6

This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that
they are ancestors of one another. A paleontologist from Harvard
U n i v e r s i t y, Stephen Jay Gould, explains this deadlock of the theory of
evolution, although he is an evolutionist himself:
What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lineages of ho -

minids (A. africanus, the robust australopithecines, and H. habilis), none
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clearly derived from another? More o v e r none of the three display any evolu -
tionary trends during their tenure on earth.
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Put briefly, the scenario of human evolution, which is "upheld"
with the help of various drawings of some "half ape, half human"
creatures appearing in the media and course books, that is, frankly,
by means of propaganda, is nothing but a tale with no scientific

foundation.
L o rd Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and respected sci-
entists in the U.K., who carried out re s e a rch on this subject for years
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and studied A u s t r a l o p i t h e c u sossils for 15 years, finally concluded, de-
spite being an evolutionist himself, that there is, in fact, no such family
t ree branching out from ape-like cre a t u res to man.
Zuckerman also made an interesting "spectrum of science" rang-

ing from those he considered scientific to those he considered unscien-
tific. A c c o rding to Zuckerman's spectrum, the most "scientific"—that
is, depending on concrete data—fields of science are chemistry and

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