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Harun Yahya
that it was created. This fact is admitted also by the widely known evolu-
tionist biologist Douglas Futuyma:
Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possible explanations
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 om-
nipotent intelligence. 101
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 evo-
lution is the subject of the origin of man. The Darwinist claim holds that
modern man evolved from ape-like creatures. During this alleged evolu-
tionary process, which is supposed to have started 4-5 million years ago,
some "transitional forms" between modern man and his ancestors are
supposed to have existed. According to this completely imaginary sce-
nario, 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 specimens 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 extinct and bore no resemblance to
humans. 102
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