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Harun Yahya

Even evolutionist
media organizations
and scientific jour-
nals described
Sahelanthropus as a
finding that rocked
Darwinist assump-
tions.

ture (according to the evolutionist criteria) than
Australopithecus, which lived only 5 million years ago and
was claimed to be the "oldest human ancestor." This
showed once again that the already battered human evolu-
tion scenario was untenable.

Bernard Wood, an evolutionist anthropologist from
George Washington University in Washington, made an
important explanation of the newly-discovered fossil. He

said that the "ladder of evolution" myth impressed on peo-
ple's minds throughout the 20th century had no validity,
and that evolution could be compared to a bush:

When I went to medical school in 1963, human evolution
looked like a ladder [that] stepped from monkey to man

through a progression of intermediates, each slightly less
ape-like than the last. Now human evolution looks like a
bush. . . . How they are related to each other and which, if
any of them, are human forebears is still debated. 42

In an article for The Guardian newspaper, Henry Gee
said this about arguments caused by the newly-found ape

fossil:

Whatever the outcome, the skull shows, once and for all,
that the old idea of a "missing link" [between apes and hu-
mans] is bunk. . . It should now be quite plain that the very

idea of the missing link, always shaky, is now completely
untenable. 43
His important book In Search of Deep Time, published in

1999, explains that the myth of how human beings evolved,
discussed for decades in the media and in so-called scientific evolution-
ist literature, was of no value:

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