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HARUN YAHYA

to inhuman treatment inspired by this unscientific preconception.
Writers and thinkers like Adam Ferguson, John Millar and
Adam Smith suggested that all societies evolve through four basic
stages: hunting and gathering, pastoralism and nomadism, agricul-
ture and finally, commerce. According to evolutionists' claims, prim-
itive men who had just diverged from the apes only hunted and

collected plants and fruits with the simplest of tools. As their intelli-
gence and abilities gradually increased, they began domesticating
grazing animals like sheep and cattle. Their intelligence and abilities
eventually developed to the point of being able to engage in agricul-
ture, and at last, to engage in trade and exchange of goods.
However, advances and recent discoveries in archaeology, an-

thropology, and other branches of science have invalidated this basic

Today, alongside highly advanced civilizations, there are also rather backward ones. However,
that some societies are more advanced technologically does not mean that they are more men-
tally or physically developed.

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