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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH

claim that they are ancestors of one another. 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. ha-
bilis), none clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of the
three display any evolutionary trends during their tenure on earth. 79
Put briefly, the scenario of human evolution, which is "upheld" with
the help of various drawings of some "half ape, half human" creatures ap-
pearing in the media and course books, that is, frankly, by means of pro-
paganda, is nothing but a tale with no scientific foundation.
Lord Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and respected scien-
tists in the U.K., who carried out research on this subject for years and
studied Australopithecus fossils for 15 years, finally concluded, despite be-
ing an evolutionist 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. Ac-
cording 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 "ex-
tra-sensory perception" – concepts 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 ardent believer
[in evolution] is sometimes able to believe several contradictory
things at the same time. 80

The tale of human evolution boils down to nothing but the preju-
diced interpretations of some fossils unearthed by certain people, who
blindly adhere to their theory.

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