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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

This fossil, named Sahelanthropus tchadensis, set the cat among the
pigeons in evolutionist circles. In its report announcing the discovery of
the fossil, the world famous magazine Nature admitted that, “New-
found skull could sink our current ideas about human evolution.” 160
Daniel Lieberman of Harvard University said that this new discov-
ery “will have the impact of a small nuclear bomb.” 161
The reason for this is that according to the criteria currently
adopted by evolutionists, despite the fossil being 7 million years old, it
possessed a more human-like structure than apes of the Australopithecus

genus which are 5 million years old and claimed to be man’s oldest an-
cestor. This showed that the evolutionary relationships constructed
among all these extinct species of ape on exceedingly subjective and
preconceived grounds of similarity to man,
were entirely fictitious.
In “Oldest Member of
Human Family Found,”
an article in the July 11,

Sahelanthropus tchadensis