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DEVOTION AMONG ANIMALS

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Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution as "homo,"
that is "man." According to their claim, the living beings in the Homo

series are more developed than Australopithecus. Evolutionists devise a
fanciful evolution scheme by arranging different fossils of these crea-
tures in a particular order. This scheme is imaginary because it has
never been proved that there is an evolutionary relation between these
different classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth century's most im-
portant evolutionists, contends in his book One Long Argument that
"particularly historical [puzzles] such as the origin of life or of Homo
sapiens, are extremely difficult and may even resist a final, satisfying
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explanation."
By outlining the link chain as Australopithecus > Homo habilis > Homo
erectus > Homo sapiens, evolutionists imply that each of these species is
one another's ancestor. However, recent findings of paleoanthropolo-
gists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo erec-
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tus lived at different parts of the world at the same time.
Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo erectus

have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens neandarthalensis
and Homo sapiens sapiens (modern man) co-existed in the same re-
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gion.
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that
they are ancestors of one another. A paleontologist from Harvard
University, 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 hominids (A. africanus, the robust australopithecines, and H. ha-
bilis), none clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of the
three display any evolutionary trends during their tenure on
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earth.
Put briefly, the scenario of human evolution, which is "upheld" with

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