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The Deception of Evolution

Imaginary representations of ‘primitive’ human beings are frequently employed in
stories carried by pro-evolution newspapers and magazines. The only source for
these stories, based on these imaginary representations, are the imaginations of
their authors. Yet evolution has suffered such a defeat in the face of the scientific
facts that fewer reports concerning evolution now appear in scientific magazines.

ing from those he considered scientific to those he considered unsci-
entific. According to Zuckerman's spectrum, the most "scientific"—

that is, depending on concrete data—fields of science are chemistry
and physics. After them come the biological sciences and then the so-
cial sciences. At the far end of the spectrum, which is the part consid-
ered to be most "unscientific," are "extra-sensory
perception"—concepts such as telepathy and sixth sense—and finally
"human evolution." Zuckerman explains his reasoning:

We then move right off the register of objective truth into those

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