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HARUN YAHYA

ditions as well as societies living civilized lives. But this by no means
constitutes evidence for the so-called evolution of history, because
while one part of the world is launching shuttles into space, people
in other lands are still unacquainted with electricity. Yet this does not
mean that those who build spacecraft are mentally or physically
more advanced—and have progressed further down the supposed
evolutionary road and become more culturally evolved—nor that
the others are closer to the fictional ape-men. These merely indicate
differences in cultures and civilizations.

Evolutionists Cannot Account for
Archaeological Discoveries

When you examine an evolutionist's history of mankind, you'll
notice the detailed depictions of how man's allegedly primitive an-
cestors went about their daily lives. Anyone impressed by the confi-
dent, authoritative style, but without much knowledge of the
subject, may well assume that all these "artistic reconstructions" are
based on scientific evidence. Evolutionist scientists arrive at detailed
descriptions as if they had been around thousands of years ago and
had the opportunity to carry out observations. They say that when
our supposed ancestors—who had now learned to stand on two legs
and had nothing else to do with their hands—began making stone
tools, and for a very long period used no other implements other
than ones made of stone and wood. Only at a much later date did
they start to use iron, copper and brass. Yet these accounts are based
on misinterpretation of findings in the light of evolutionist precon-
ceptions, rather than on scientific proof.

In his book Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction, archaeologist
Paul Bahn says that the scenario of mankind's evolution is nothing

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