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The Deception of Evolution

Australopithecus, which means "South African ape." These living
beings are actually nothing but an old ape species that has become
extinct. Extensive re s e a rch done on various A u s t r a l o p i t h e c u ss p e c i-
mens by two world famous anatomists from England and the USA,
n a m e l y, Lord Solly Zuckerman and Prof. Charles Oxnard, shows
that these apes belonged to an ordinary ape species that became ex-
tinct and bore no resemblance to humans. 13
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 A u s t r a l o p i t h e c u s
.
Evolutionists devise a fanciful evolution scheme by arranging dif-
ferent fossils of these creatures in a particular order. This scheme is
imaginary because it has never been proved that there is an evolu-
tionary relation between these diff e rent classes. Ernst Mayr, one of
the twentieth century's most important evolutionists, contends in
his book One Long Arg u m e n tthat "particularly historical [puzzles]
such as the origin of life or of Homo sapiens, are extremely difficult
and may even resist a final, satisfying explanation." 14
By outlining the link chain as Australopithecus> Homo habilis>
Homo ere c t u s> Homo sapiensevolutionists imply that each of these
,
species is one another's ancestor. However, recent findings of pale-
o a n t h ropologists have revealed that A u s t r a l o p i t h e c u sHomo habilis
,
,

and Homo ere c t u slived at diff e rent parts of the world at the same
time. 15
Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo erec-
tus have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens nean -
darthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens(modern man) co-existed in the
same region. 16
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim
that they are ancestors of one another. A paleontologist fro m

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