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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

face.... To me this is most spectacular—these are the kinds of things that
shake you. Finding something totally unexpected like that. Not finding
fossils; finding fossils is unexpected too, and it's okay. But the most
spectacular thing is finding something you thought belonged to the present,
in the past. It's like finding something like—like a tape recorder in Gran
Dolina. That would be very surprising. We don't expect cassettes and tape
recorders in the Lower Pleistocene. Finding a modern face 800,000 years
ago—it's the same thing. We were very surprised when we saw it. 219

The fossil highlighted the fact that the history of Homo sapiens had to
be extended back to 800,000 years ago. After recovering from the initial
shock, the evolutionists who discovered the fossil decided that it belonged
to a different species, because according to the evolutionary family tree,
Homo sapiens did not live 800,000 years ago. Therefore, they made up an
imaginary species called Homo antecessor and included the Atapuerca skull
under this classification.

Huts and Footprints
There have been many findings demonstrating that Homo sapiens

dates back even earlier than 800,000 years. One of them is a discovery by
Louis Leakey in the early 1970s in Olduvai Gorge. Here, in the Bed II layer,
Leakey discovered that Australopithecus, Homo habilis and Homo erectus
species had co-existed at the same time. What is even more interesting was
a structure Leakey found in the same layer (Bed II). Here, he found the
remains of a stone hut. The unusual aspect of the event was that this
construction, which is still used in some parts of Africa, could only have
been built by Homo sapiens! So, according to Leakey's findings,
Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus and modern man must have
co-existed approximately 1.7 million years ago. 220 This discovery must
surely invalidate the evolutionary theory that claims that modern man
evolved from ape-like species such as Australopithecus.
Indeed, some other discoveries trace the origins of modern man back
to 1.7 million years ago. One of these important finds is the footprints
found in Laetoli, Tanzania, by Mary Leakey in 1977. These footprints were
found in a layer that was calculated to be 3.6 million years old, and more
importantly, they were no different from the footprints that a
contemporary man would leave.

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