Page 133 - Darwinist Propaganda Techniques

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

are actually nothing but an old ape species that has become extinct.

Extensive research done on various Australopithecus specimens by
two world famous anatomists from England and the USA, namely,
Lord Solly Zuckerman and Prof. Charles Oxnard, shows that these
apes belonged to an ordinary ape species that became extinct and bore
no resemblance to humans. 18
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. Evolu-
tionists devise a fanciful evolution scheme by arranging different fos-
sils of these creatures in a particular order. This scheme is imaginary
because it has never been proved that there is an evolutionary rela-
tion between these different classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth
century's most important 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 explanation." 19

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 pale-
oanthropologists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and
Homo erectus lived at different parts of the world at the same time. 20
Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo erectus
have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens neandarthalen-

sis and Homo sapiens sapiens (man) co-existed in the same region. 21
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that
they are ancestors of one another. The late Stephen Jay Gould ex-
plained this deadlock of the theory of evolution although he was him-
self one of the leading advocates of evolution in the twentieth century:
What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lineages

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