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teeth and skeletal structure like those in beings identical to the H. sapiens were
Archaeopteryx make it a unique species living nearly a million years ago.
of bird, not a reptile. The findings on this subject 199 we-
However, all kinds of biased inter- re rejected by some evolutionist pale-
pretations can be made from the evolu- oanthropologists, because of their dama-
tionist perspective. Were a fossil Hoatzin ging implications for the evolutionary
discovered today in the appropriate ge- family tree. One fossil discovered in
ological strata, very likely it would be Atapuerca in Spain in 1995 revealed in a
proposed as a transitional form, in the most striking manner that H. sapiens
same way as Archaeopteryx was. But the was far older than had been thought.
fact that this creature is still alive and (See Atapuerca.) This fossil indicated
manifestly a bird does not let evolutio- that the history of H. sapiens needed to
nists make any such claim. be put back to at least 800,000 years ago.
However, once they had got over their
Homo antecessor initial shock, evolutionists decided that
The most astonishing fact to tear up the fossil belonged to a different species,
the imaginary tree of life by its very ro- because—according to the evolutionary
ots is the way that Homo sapiens dates family tree—H. sapiens could not have
back to unexpectedly early times. Pale- been alive 800,000 years ago. They the-
ontological findings show that human refore came up with an imaginary speci-
Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)