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196 SOLUTION THE VALUES OF THE QUR'AN

Evolutionists seek to
establish a fictitious
evolutionary tree by
using extinct species
of ape and certain
human races.
However, the scientific
evidence allows them
no opportunity of
doing so.

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. 39
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. 40
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that they
are ancestors of one another. Stephen Jay Gould explained this deadlock of
the theory of evolution although he was himself one of the leading advocates
of evolution in the twentieth century:
What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lineages 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. 41