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THE EVOLUTION MISCONCEPTION

eages 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
Put briefly, the scenario of human evolution, which is
sought to be 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 propa-
ganda, is nothing but a tale with no scientific ground.
Lord Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and re-
spected scientists in the U.K., who carried out research on
this subject for years, and particularly studied
Australopithecus fossils for 15 years, finally concluded, de-
spite 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 sci-
ence." He formed a spectrum of sciences ranging from those
he considered scientific to those he considered unscientific.
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 sci-
ences and then the social sciences. At the far end of the spec-
trum, which is the part considered to be most "unscientific,"
are "extra-sensory perception"—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 percep-
tion or the interpretation of man's fossil history, where to the
faithful [evolutionist] anything is possible - and where the ar-
dent believer [in evolution] is sometimes able to believe several
contradictory things at the same time. 19