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                                 The Evolution Misconception

              the living beings in the Homo series are more developed than
              Australopithecus. Evolutionists devise a fanciful evolution
              scheme by arranging different fossils of these creatures in a
              particular order. This scheme is imaginary because it has
              never been proved that there is an evolutionary relation
              between these different classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the most
              important proponents of the theory of evolution in the 20th
              century, contends in his book  One Long Argument  that
              "particularly historical [puzzles] such as the origin of life or of
              Homo sapiens, are extremely difficult and may even resist a final,
              satisfying explanation." 15
                  By outlining the link chain as "Australopithecus > Homo
              habilis > Homo erectus > Homo sapiens," evolutionists imply
              that each of these species is one another's ancestor. However,
              recent findings of paleoanthropologists have revealed that
              Australopithecus, Homo habilis and Homo erectus lived at
              different parts of the world at the same time. 16
                  Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as
              Homo erectus have lived up until very modern times. Homo
              sapiens neandarthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens
              (modern man) co-existed in the same region. 17
                  This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the
              claim that they are ancestors of one another. A paleontologist
              from Harvard University, Stephen Jay Gould, explains this

              deadlock of the theory of evolution although he is an
              evolutionist himself:
                 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. 18
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