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belonged to an ordinary ape species that became extinct and bore no
resemblance to humans. 31

Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution as "ho-
mo," that is "man." According to their claim, the living beings in the
Homo series are more developed than Australopithecus. Evolution-
ists devise a fanciful evolution scheme by arranging different fossils
of these creatures in a particular order. This scheme is imaginary be-
cause 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." 32
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. 33
Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo erec-

tus have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens nean-
darthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens (present-day man) co-ex-
isted in the same region. 34
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that
they are ancestors of one another. The late Stephen Jay Gould ex-
plained this deadlock of the theory of evolution although he was him-
self one of the leading advocates of evolution in the twentieth centu-
ry:
What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lin-
eages of hominids (A. africanus, the robust australopithecines, and
H. habilis), none clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of

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