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HARUN YAHYA - ADNAN OKTAR

Put brief ly, the sce nar io of human evo lu tion, which is
"upheld" with the help of var i ous draw ings of some "half
ape, half human" crea tures appear ing in the media and
course books, that is, frank ly, by means of prop a gan -
da, is noth ing but a tale with no sci en tif ic foun da tion.
Lord Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and
respect ed sci en tists in the U.K., who car ried out
research on this sub ject for years and stud ied
Australopithecus fos sils for 15 years, final ly con clud -
ed, despite being an evo lu tion ist him self, that there is,
in fact, no such fam i ly tree branch ing out from ape-like
crea tures to man.
Zuckerman also made an inter est ing "spec trum of
sci ence" ran ging from those he con sid ered sci en tif ic
to those he con sid ered unsci en tif ic. According to
Zuckerman's spec trum, the most "sci en tif ic"—that is,
depend ing on con crete data—fields of sci ence are
chem is try and phys ics. After them come the bio log i cal
sci en ces and then the social sci en ces. At the far end
of the spec trum, which is the part con sid ered to be
most "unsci en tif ic," are "extra-sen so ry per cep tion"—
con cepts such as telep a thy and sixth sense—and final -
ly "human evo lu tion." Zuckerman explains his rea son -
ing:
We then move right off the reg is ter of objec tive truth
into those fields of pre sumed bio log i cal sci ence, like
extra sen so ry per cep tion or the inter pre ta tion of

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