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Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

tionists lost one more of their so-called proofs.
6. They claim that in fossil remains, there are traces of
"ape men" proving that human beings are descended from a
common ancestor with apes. However, all claims in this regard

rest only on prejudiced assumptions, and even evolutionists are
forced to admit that there is no fossil evidence for human evolu-
tion. For example, Richard Leakey, an evolutionist paleoanthropol-
ogist, writes:
David Pilbeam comments wryly, 'If you brought in a smart scientist
from another discipline and showed him the meagre evidence
we've got, he'd surely say, "Forget it: there isn't enough to go on".'
Neither David nor others involved in the search for mankind can
take this advice, of course, but we remain fully aware of the dangers
of drawing conclusions from evidence that is so incomplete. 2
David Pilbeam, whom Leakey quotes above, is also an evolu-
tionist paleontologist. As he admits:
My reservations concern not so much this book [Richard Leakey's
Origins] but the whole subject and methodology of paleoanthropol-
ogy. . . . Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, in-
cluding myself, have been flailing about in the dark; . . . our data
base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theo-
ries. 3
The fossils claimed to be those of human beings' so-called an-
cestors have been shown to belong to either an extinct species of
ape, or a different race of human being. As a result, evolutionists

are left without a single proof to substantiate their thesis that
human beings and apes evolved from a single ancestor.
7. They claim that the embryos of human beings
and other creatures undergo the same "process

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