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Yet the huge gulf between human be-
ings and apes is too vast to be bridged
with evolutionist claims and myths.
Apes are animals and, in terms of cons-
ciousness, are no different to horses or
dogs. Human beings, on the other hand,
are conscious, possess free will and are
capable of thought, speech, reasoning,
decision-making and judgment. All the- the ground.) But this first theory is ut-
se attributes are processes of the soul terly imaginary, and has no scientific
they possess. It is this soul that gives rise evidence to support it.
to the major difference between human John Ostrom, who first proposed the
beings and animals. Man is the only en- cursorial theory, admits that the propo-
tity in nature to possess a soul. No physi- nents of both hypotheses can do nothing
cal similarity can bridge this widest gulf more than speculate. He wrote that his
between humans and other living things. theory of “cursorial predator” was in fact
speculative—but the arboreal theory was
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Arboreal Theory
In addition, none of the transitional
This is one of two evolutionist the- forms (See Transitional form) that sho-
ories regarding how reptiles—a terrestri- uld have existed on Earth in ages past
al life form—began to fly. According to has ever been discovered (See Cursorial
the arboreal theory, the ancestors of theory; also Origin of birds, the.)
birds were tree-dwelling reptiles that
gradually developed wings by leaping
from branch to branch. (The other view Archaeopteryx
is the cursorial theory, which maintains
This extinct species of bird lived 140
that birds took to the air directly from
million years ago, during the Jurassic
Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)