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FAITH: THE WAY TO HAPPINESS

H a r v a rd University, Stephen Jay Gould, explains this deadlock of
the theory of evolution, although he is an evolutionist himself:
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What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lineages of ho
minids (A. africanus, the robust australopithecines, and H. habilis), none
clearly derived from another? More o v e r, none of the three display any
evolutionary trends during their tenure on earth.
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Put briefly, the scenario of human evolution, which is "upheld"
with the help of various drawings of some "half ape, half human"
creatures appearing in the media and course books, that is, frankly,
by means of propaganda, is nothing but a tale with no scientific
foundation.
L o rd Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and re s p e c t e d
scientists in the U.K., who carried out re s e a rch on this subject for
years and studied A u s t r a l o p i t h e c u sfossils for 15 years, finally con-
cluded, despite being an evolutionist himself, that there is, in fact,
no such family tree branching out from ape-like creatures to man.
Zuckerman also made an interesting "spectrum of science"
ranging from those he considered scientific to those he considere d
unscientific. A c c o rding to Zuckerman's spectrum, the most "scien-
tific"—that is, depending on concrete data—fields of science are
chemistry and physics. After them come the biological sciences and
then the social sciences. At the far end of the spectrum, which is the
part considered to be most "unscientific," are "extra-sensory percep-
tion"—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 fields of
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presumed biological science, like extrasensory perception or the interpr
tation of man's fossil history, where to the faithful [evolutionist] any -
thing is possible—and where the ardent believer [in evolution] is

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