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Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

impact of a small nuclear bomb." 41 The reason
was that, although this fossil was 7 million years old, it
had a more "human" structure (according to the evolution-

ist criteria) than Australopithecus, which lived only 5 million
years ago and was claimed to be the "oldest human ancestor." This
showed once again that the already battered human evolution sce-
nario was untenable.
Bernard Wood, an evolutionist anthropologist from George
Washington University in Washington, made an important expla-
nation of the newly-discovered fossil. He said that the "ladder of

evolution" myth impressed on people's minds throughout the
20th century had no validity, and that evolution could be com-
pared to a bush:
When I went to medical school in 1963, human evolution looked
like a ladder [that] stepped from monkey to man through a progres-
sion of intermediates, each slightly less ape-like than the last. Now
human evolution looks like a bush. . . . How they are related to each
other and which, if any of them, are human forebears is still de-
bated. 42
In an article for The Guardian newspaper, Henry Gee said this
about arguments caused by the newly-found ape fossil:
Whatever the outcome, the skull shows, once and for all, that the
old idea of a "missing link" [between apes and humans] is bunk. . . It
should now be quite plain that the very idea of the missing link, al-
ways shaky, is now completely untenable. 43
His important book In Search of Deep Time, published in
1999, explains that the myth of how human beings

evolved, discussed for decades in the media and

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