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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

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 evo-
lution in the twentieth century:
What has become of our ladder if there are three coex-
isting lineages of hominids (A. africanus, the robust aus-
tralopithecines, 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
"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 propaganda, is nothing
but a tale with no scientific foundation.
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 studied Australopithecus fossils for 15
years, finally concluded, despite being an evolutionist him-
self, 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" 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 sciences and then the social sciences. At the far

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