Page 21 - A Definitive Reply to Evolutionist Propagand‪a

HARUN YAHYA

tion to one another, and also to human beings. Yet these features do
not make penguins, doves, budgerigars, and dogs our relatives.
On the other hand, these animals do reveal the invalidity of the
theory of evolution's claims regarding the origin of their intelli-
gence and behavior. Despite the fact that the creatures we have just
listed are located on branches of the imaginary evolutionary tree far
more distant from man than are chimpanzees, they are still able to
display behavior much closer to human intelligence than that of
chimpanzees.
Honeybees reveal yet another contradiction which the theory of
evolution is quite incapable of accounting for. The theory seeks to
account for level of intelligence by the development of the nervous
system. For instance, it links the fact that man is the most highly de-
veloped living thing to his having the highest brain/body ratio.
According to this logic, chimpanzees, with a much more complex
nervous system than that of bees, should be far superior to them.
Yet the truth is actually the exact opposite. The fact that a creature
much further away from man on the imaginary evolutionary tree
than the chimpanzee is able to display the kind of complex behav-
ior seen in man, despite its being a simple organism, – the way it
calculates the surface area and circumference of the hexagon and
measures internal angles, for instance – definitively invalidates the
evolutionist claims with regard to ape intelligence.

Beware the Monkey Culture Distortion

In the documentary My Favorite Monkey it is suggested that the
tailed monkey known as the macaque possesses the ability to de-
velop complex behaviors, and to teach them to individuals and so
hand them on to subsequent generations. This is described as a kind
of "monkey culture," on the grounds that such learned behavior
falls within the meaning of culture.
It may be suggested that the behavior models peculiar to one
living species are an indication of "culture." However, as we have

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