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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

that each of these species is one another's ancestor. However, re-
cent findings of paleoanthropologists have revealed that
Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus lived at different
parts of the world at the same time. 163
Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo
erectus have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens nean-
darthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens (modern man) co-existed in
the same region. 164
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim
that they are ancestors of one another. Stephen Jay Gould ex-
plained 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
three display any evolutionary trends during their tenure on earth. 165
Put briefly, the scenario of human evolution, which is "up-
held" with the help of various drawings of some "half ape, half hu-
man" creatures appearing in the media and course books, that is,
frankly, by means of propaganda, is nothing but a tale with no sci-
entific 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"
ranging from those he considered scientific to those he consid-
ered unscientific. According to Zuckerman's spectrum, the most
"scientific" – that is, depending on concrete data – fields of sci-
ence are chemistry and physics. After them come the

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