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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-
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                                                            Evolutionists could
                                                       not decide how to classify
                                                       these skulls, and each one
                                                       put forward a different
                                                       idea.  Science  devoted
                                                       space to these views:



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