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to their claim, the living beings in the Homo series are more devel-
oped than Australopithecus. Evolutionists devise a fanciful evolution
scheme by arranging different fossils of these creatures in a particular
order. This scheme is imaginary because 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." 72
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 paleo-
anthropologists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and
Homo erectus lived at different parts of the world at the same time. 73
Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo erectus
have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens neandarthalensis
and Homo sapiens sapiens (modern man) co-existed in the same re-
gion. 74
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. ha-
bilis), none clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of the
three display any evolutionary trends during their tenure on earth. 75
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 founda-

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