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Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) in the Qur’an, the Torah,
the Psalms and the Gospel

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 Aus-
tralopithecus 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 re-
semblance to humans. 14
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 Australo-
pithecus. 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 ha-
bilis > Homo erectus > Homo sapiens, evolutionists imply that
each of these species is one another's ancestor. However, re-
cent findings of paleoanthropologists have revealed that Aus-
tralopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus lived at different
parts of the world at the same time. 16

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