Page 145 - The Dark Spell of Darwinism

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

until very modern times. Homo sapiens neandarthalensis and Homo sapiens
sapiens (man) co-existed in the same region. 83
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that they are
ancestors of one another. The late 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. 84
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 foundation.
Lord Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and respected scientists in the
U.K., who carried out research on this subject for years and studied
Australopithecus fossils for 15 years, finally concluded, despite being an evolu-
tionist himself, that there is, in fact, no such family tree branching out from
ape-like creatures to man.
Zuckerman also made an interesting "spectrum of science" ranging from
those he considered scientific to those he considered unscientific. According to
Zuckerman's spectrum, the most "scientific"–that is, depending on concrete
data–fields of science are chemistry and physics. After them come the biological
sciences and then the social sciences. At the far end of the spectrum, which is the
part considered to be most "unscientific," are "extra-sensory perception"–con-
cepts such as telepathy and sixth sense–and finally "human evolution."
Zuckerman explains his reasoning:
We then move right off the register of objective truth into those fields of presumed
biological science, like extrasensory perception or the interpretation of man's fossil
history, where to the faithful [evolutionist] anything is possible – and where the ar-

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