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What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lineages 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 on earth. 50
Put briefly, the scenario of human evolution, which is sought
to be upheld with the help of various drawings of some "half
ape, half human" creatures appearing in the media and course
books, that is, frankly, by means of propaganda, is nothing but a
tale with no scientific ground.
Lord Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and respected
scientists in the U.K., who carried out research on this subject
for years, and particularly studied Australopithecus fossils for 15
years, finally concluded, despite being 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."
He formed a spectrum of sciences ranging from those he con-
sidered scientific to those he considered unscientific. According
to Zuckerman's spectrum, the most "scientific"—that is, de-
pending 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 "extra-sensory percep-
tion"—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. 51
The tale of human evolution boils down to nothing but the
prejudiced interpretations of some fossils unearthed by certain
people, who blindly adhere to their theory.