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ings in the Homo series are more developed than
Australopithecus. Evolutionists devise a fanciful evolution
scheme by arranging different fossils of these creatures in a

particular order. This scheme is imaginary because it has never
been proved that there is an evolutionary relation between
these different classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth cen-
tury's most important evolutionists, contends in his book One

Long Argument that "particularly historical [puzzles] such as
the origin of life or of Homo sapiens, are extremely difficult and
may even resist a final, satisfying explanation." 58

By outlining the link chain as Australopithecus > Homo ha-
bilis > Homo erectus > Homo sapiens, evolutionists imply that
each of these species is one another's ancestor. However, re-

cent findings of paleoanthropologists have revealed that
Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus lived at differ-
ent parts of the world at the same time. 59

Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as
Homo erectus have lived up until very modern times. Homo
sapiens neandarthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens (modern
man) co-existed in the same region. 60

This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the
claim that they are ancestors of one another. A paleontologist
from Harvard University, Stephen Jay Gould, explains this

deadlock of the theory of evolution, although he is an evolu-
tionist himself:
What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lin-

eages 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