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BASIC TENETS OF ISLAM

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." 15
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
paleoanthropologists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo
habilis, and Homo erectus lived at different parts of the world at the
same time. 16
Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo
erectus have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens
neandarthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens (man) co-existed in
the same region. 17

This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim
that they are ancestors of one another. The late 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. habilis),
none clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of the three display
any evolutionary trends during their tenure on earth. 18

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