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HARUN YAHYA

Cultural Accumulation Is No Evidence of Any
Evolutionary Process

Evolutionists maintain that the first human beings were half-
ape creatures whose mental and physical characteristics developed
over the course of time, that they acquired new abilities, and that civ-
ilizations evolved for that reason. According to this claim, based on
no scientific evidence whatsoever, our supposed primitive ancestors
led animalistic lives, became civilized only after they became
human, and registered cultural progress as their mental capacities
developed. Fictitious images of primitive Man, with a body entirely
covered in fur, or seeking to make fire while squatting under animal
skins, walking along the waterside with a freshly killed animal on
his shoulder, or seeking to communicate with his peers by gestures
and grunting, are false recreations based on this unscientific claim.
The fossil record does not support this fantasy. All scientific
findings point to the conclusion that Man was created as Man, out of
nothing, and has always lived as human since the first day he was
brought into being. Neither do archaeological findings support the
evolutionist chronology in any way. Findings from the period when
evolutionists claim that humans had only learned to speak show that
human beings of the time had kitchens and enjoyed family lives.
Decorative objects and raw materials for paint have been found in
excavations from times when evolutionists say that humans were
still unaware of art. Many examples will be considered in detail in
later chapters of this book.
All these discoveries reveal that humans never endured primi-
tive, animalistic lives. There never was an uncivilized age when all
people used only stone and wooden implements. Believers have al-
ways led human lifestyles, with clothes, plates, bowls, spoons and

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