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the more their intelligence grew. They thus turned into
human beings.
You can often find stories like this in evolutionist news-

papers and magazines. Reporters who accept the theory of
evolution, or whose knowledge of it is limited or superficial,
relate these stories to their readers as if they were factual.
However, more and more scientists proclaim that they have
no scientific value. Dr. Collin Patterson, for years the senior
paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History in
London, writes:

It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise
to another, and to find reasons why the stages should be fa-
vored by natural selection. But such stories are not part of sci-
ence, for there is no way of putting them to the test. 117

And in his book Fossils and Evolution (1999), the evolu-
tionist paleontologist T.S. Kemp takes up the lack of scientific
value in what has been written about the supposed evolution
of birds: Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
A scenario for the origin of birds might be that during the Late
Jurassic there was a selection pressure favouring the adoption
of increasingly arboreal [tree-dwelling] habits acting on a
group of small, lightly built bipedal dinosaurs. Arboreality in-
creased their ability to escape predators and find
new food sources. Subsequent selection forces
promoted leaping, then gliding, and even-
tually powered flight from branch to
branch and tree to tree. Absolutely none
of these suppositions about the interme-
diate forms, the ecological conditions

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