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THE DECEPTION OF EVOLUTION                     89


             that they are ancestors of one another.  A paleontologist from
             Harvard University, Stephen Jay Gould, explains this deadlock of
             the theory of evolution, although he is an evolutionist himself:

               What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lineages
               of hominids (A. africanus, the robust australopithecines, and H. ha-
               bilis), none clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of the
               three display any evolutionary trends during their tenure on earth. 17
               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.
               Lord Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and respected
             scientists in the U.K., who carried out research on this subject for
             years and studied Australopithecus fossils 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" rang-
             ing from those he considered scientific to those he considered unsci-
             entific.  According to Zuckerman's spectrum, the most
             "scientific"—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 per-
             ception"—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 presumed biological science, like extrasensory perception or the
               interpretation of man's fossil history, where to the faithful [evolu-
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