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Pleasant Words from the Gospel

Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possi-
ble explanations for the origin of living things. Organisms
either appeared on the earth fully developed or they did

not. If they did not, they must have developed from pre-
existing species by some process of modification. If they
did appear in a fully developed state, they must indeed
have been created by some omnipotent intelligence. 13
Fossils show that living beings emerged fully developed
and in a perfect state on the Earth. That means that "the origin
of species," contrary to Darwin's supposition, is not evolution,
but Creation.

The Tale of Human Evolution

The subject most often brought up by advocates of the theo-
ry of evolution is the subject of the origin of man. The Darwin-
ist claim holds that man evolved from so-called ape-like crea-
tures. During this alleged evolutionary process, which is sup-
posed to have started 4-5 million years ago, some "transitional
forms" between man and his imaginary ancestors are supposed
to have existed. According to this completely imaginary sce-
nario, four basic "categories" are listed:
1. Australopithecus
2. Homo habilis
3. Homo erectus
4. Homo sapiens
Evolutionists call man's so-called first ape-like ancestors
Australopithecus, which means "South African ape." These liv-

ing beings are actually nothing but an old ape species that has
become extinct. Extensive research done on various Australop-

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