Page 91 - A Historical Lie: The Stone Age

HARUN YAHYA

These artifacts and archaeological discoveries raise a number
of questions that Darwinism, which maintains that human beings
and apes are descended from a common ancestor, cannot answer.
For example, as for the ape-like creatures, which they claim lived
tens of thousands of years ago, merely grunting and living an ani-
mal lifestyle—why and how did they begin to become social be-
ings? This is a major dilemma for evolutionists. The theory of
evolution has no scientific and rational answers as to why these
ape-like creatures descended from the trees to the ground, how
they managed to stand on two legs, and how their intelligence and
abilities developed. The "explanations" are nothing more than pre-
conceptions and fairy tales based solely on fantasy.
How did monkeys leaping from branch to branch decide to
descend to the ground? If you ask evolutionists, they will say that
this was because of climatic factors. The theory of evolution won't
be able to provide a rational and logical answer to the first ques-
tions that come to mind. Why did other monkeys choose to remain
in the branches when they could have imitated these ones who de-
scended to the ground? Or, why did these climatic factors influence
only some monkeys? What prevented others from descending

from the trees under the same climatic influences? If you ask how it
was that monkeys descended to the ground and began to walk on
two legs, evolutionists will provide different accounts. Some will
say, for instance, that these ape-like creatures decided to walk up-
right on two legs, the better to defend against powerful enemies.
Yet none of these answers are scientific.
First and foremost, there is no such thing as the evolution of
bipedalism. Human beings walk upright on two feet—a very spe-
cial form of locomotion not seen in any other species. One most im-

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