Page 177 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Another significant finding proving that there can be no family-tree
relationship among these different species is that species that are
presented as ancestors of others in fact lived concurrently. If, as
evolutionists claim, Australopithecus changed into Homo habilis, which, in
turn, turned into Homo erectus, the periods they lived in should necessarily
have followed each other. However, there is no such chronological order
to be seen in the fossil record.
According to evolutionist estimates, Australopithecus lived from 4
million up until 1 million years ago. The creatures classified as Homo
habilis, on the other hand, are thought to have lived until 1.7 to 1.9 million
years ago. Homo rudolfensis, which is said to have been more "advanced"
than Homo habilis, is known to be as old as from 2.5 to 2.8 million years!
That is to say, Homo rudolfensis is nearly 1 million years older than Homo
habilis, of which it is alleged to have been the "ancestor." On the other
hand, the age of Homo erectus goes as far back as 1.6-1.8 million years ago,
which means that Homo erectus appeared on the earth in the same time
frame as its so-called ancestor, Homo habilis.
Alan Walker confirms this fact by stating that "there is evidence from
East Africa for late-surviving small Australopithecus individuals that were
contemporaneous first with H. Habilis, then with H. erectus." 209 Louis
Leakey has found fossils of Australopithecus, Homo habilis and Homo erectus
almost next to each other in the Olduvai Gorge region of Tanzania, in the
Bed II layer. 210
There is definitely no such family tree. Stephen Jay Gould, the
paleontologist from Harvard University, explains this deadlock faced by
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. habilis), none
clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of the three display any
evolutionary trends during their tenure on earth. 211
When we move on from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens, we again see
that there is no family tree to talk about. There is evidence showing that
Homo erectus and archaic Homo sapiens continued living up to 27,000 years
and even as recently as 10,000 years before our time. In the Kow Swamp
in Australia, some 13,000-year-old Homo erectus skulls have been found.

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