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The Deception of Evolution

4. Homo sapiens
Evolutionists call man's so-called first ape-like ancestors
Australopithecus, which means "South African ape." These living beings
are actually nothing but an old ape species that has become extinct.
Extensive research done on various Australopithecus specimens by two
world famous anatomists from England and the USA, namely, Lord Solly
Zuckerman and Prof. Charles Oxnard, shows that these apes belonged to
an ordinary ape species that became extinct and bore no resemblance to
humans. 13
Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution as "homo,"
that is "man." According to their claim, the living beings in the Homo series
are more developed than Australopithecus. Evolutionists devise a fanciful
evolution scheme by arranging different fossils of these creatures in a par-
ticular 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 century's most important evolutionists, con-
tends 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." 14
By outlining the link chain as Australopithecus > Homo habilis > Homo
erectus > Homo sapiens, evolutionists imply that each of these species is one
another's ancestor. However, recent findings of paleoanthropologists have
revealed that Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus lived at dif-
ferent parts of the world at the same time. 15
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. 16
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, al-
though he is an evolutionist himself:

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