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THE MIRACLE IN THE SEED


                ings are actually nothing but an old ape species that has become ex-
                tinct. 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. 72
                    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 evolutionary 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
                sapiens, are extremely difficult and may even resist a final, satisfying
                explanation." 73
                    By outlining the link chain as Australopithecus > Homo habilis >
                Homo erectus > Homo sapiens, evolutionists imply that each of these
                species is one another's ancestor. However, recent findings of paleoan-
                thropologists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and
                Homo erectus lived at different parts of the world at the same time. 74
                    Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo erectus
                have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens neandarthalensis
                and Homo sapiens sapiens (modern man) co-existed in the same region. 75
                    This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that
                they are ancestors of one another. Stephen Jay Gould explained this
                deadlock of the theory of evolution, although he was himself one of the
                leading advocates of evolution 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. ha-
                    bilis), none clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of the
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