Page 185 - The Transitional Form Dilemma

HARUN YAHYA

The fossil Kenyanthropus platyops, discovered in 2001 and known as
“flat-faced man,” was proclaimed by its finders, Meave Leakey and her
team, to be the ancestor of man. The fact is, however, that this 3.5-mil-
lion-year-old fossil skull totally overturned the so-called family tree de-
picting human evolution, so beloved of evolutionists, and further
complicated the inconsistencies.
This fossil, which even the world’s most prominent evolutionists
are unable to fit into their imaginary scheme, has more advanced fea-
tures, according to evolutionist criteria, than certain species of chim-
panzees (such as Lucy) that lived after it. Therefore, that fossil with its
very different characteristics totally overturned evolutionists’ assump-
tions, since they were at a loss where to place it.
Looking at all the fossils so far discovered and discussed here, we
can see clearly that there is no evolutionary scheme with apes evolving
from a common ancestor and turning, stage by stage, into man. On the
contrary, the plan is in complete chaos.
A diagram published on the BBC website in a report concerning
this fossil emphasized that chaos. From the diagram, titled “Complex
Hominid Tree”, 177 it could be seen that it showed no ordered develop-
ment and that on the contrary, the fossil discoveries possessed entirely
unconnected features.
Underneath the diagram appeared this comment:
Scientists are struggling to sort the relationships between their diverse collec-
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Daniel E. Lieberman Professor of Biological Anthropology at
Harvard University, made the following comments regarding
Kenyanthropus platyops in an article in Nature magazine:
The evolutionary history of humans is complex and unresolved. It now looks
set to be thrown into further confusion by the discovery of another species and
genus, dated to 3.5 million years ago. . . . The nature of Kenyanthropus platy-
ops raises all kinds of questions, about human evolution in general and the be-

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