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M MIRACLE IN THE EYE

1. Australopithecus
2. Homo habilis
3. Homo erectus
4. Homo sapiens
Evolutionists call man's so-called first ape-like ancestors Australopithecus,
which means "South African ape." These living beings are actually nothing but
an old ape species that has become extinct. Extensive research done on various
Australopithecus specimens by two world famous anatomists from England and
the USA, namely, Lord Solly Zuckerman and Prof. Charles Oxnard, shows that
these apes belonged to an ordinary ape species that became extinct and bore no
resemblance to humans. 66
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 Australopithecus. Evolutionists devise a fanciful evolution
scheme by arranging different fossils of these creatures in a particular order. This
scheme is imaginary because it has never been proved that there is an evolution-
ary relation between these different classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth
century's most important evolutionists, contends in his book One Long Argument
that "particularly historical [puzzles] such as the origin of life or of Homo sapi-
ens, are extremely difficult and may even resist a final, satisfying explanation." 67
By outlining the link chain as Australopithecus > Homo habilis > Homo erectus
> Homo sapiens, evolutionists imply that each of these species is one another's an-
cestor. However, recent findings of paleoanthropologists have revealed that
Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus lived at different parts of the
world at the same time. 68
Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo erectus have
lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens neandarthalensis and Homo sapi-
ens sapiens (modern man) co-existed in the same region. 69
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that they are
ancestors of one another. Stephen Jay Gould explained this deadlock of the the-
ory of evolution, although he was himself one of the leading advocates of evolu-
tion in the twentieth century:
What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lineages of
hominids (A. africanus, the robust australopithecines, and H. habilis),
none clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of the three display
any evolutionary trends during their tenure on earth. 70
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