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HARUN YAHYA
human races and try to make them compatible with their schemas.
Yet no fossil is actually compatible, since human beings did not
evolve from a common ancestor with apes. Throughout history, human
beings have always been human beings, and monkeys have always
been monkeys. For that reason, the theory of evolution will find itself in
yet another quandary with every new scientific discovery.
The Dmanisi Skulls
The Dmanisi Skulls
In 2002, three fossil skulls were discovered in the Dmanisi region
of Georgia, near the capital, Tbilisi. Some evolutionists sought to depict
these skulls as transitional forms between human beings and their al-
leged ancestors, while many others were obliged to admit that these
skulls overthrew a number of evolutionist claims. One was Daniel E.
Lieberman from Harvard University, who said that the skull would to-
tally undermine some peoples’ ideas that the first human beings mi-
grated from Africa. 182
The following comments about the three fossil skulls appeared in
Science magazine:
Taken together, the three Dmanisi skulls suggest that our ancestors left Africa
earlier, and at an earlier stage of evolution, than had long been assumed. But
where exactly do the Dmanisi remains fit on the hominid family tree—and do
they represent one or more species? Those questions are sparking much de-
bate... 183
Evolutionists could
not decide how to classify
these skulls, and each one
put forward a different
idea. Science devoted
space to these views:
Meave Leakey
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