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ANSWERS FROM THE QUR'AN
Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possible expla-
nations for the origin of living things. Organisms either appeared
on the earth fully developed or they did not. If they did not, they
must have developed from pre-existing species by some process of
modification. If they did appear in a fully developed state, they
must indeed have been created by some omnipotent intelligence. 13
Fossils show that living beings emerged fully developed and
in a perfect state on the Earth. That means that "the origin of
species," contrary to Darwin's supposition, is not evolution, but
Creation.

The Tale of Human Evolution

The subject most often brought up by advocates of the theory of
evolution is the subject of the origin of man. The Darwinist claim
holds that man evolved from so-called ape-like creatures. During
this alleged evolutionary process, which is supposed to have
started 4-5 million years ago, some "transitional forms" between
present-day man and his imaginary ancestors are supposed to have
existed. According to this completely imaginary scenario, four basic
"categories" are listed:
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 Australopithecus speci-
mens 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 ex-
tinct and bore no resemblance to humans. 14
Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution as

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