Al Jazeera’s Arabic language edition claims “Ardi,” a recovered skeleton of a 4.4 million year old ancestor of Ardipithicus, “disproves Darwin’s theory of evolution.”

Lina Malkawi translated the Al Jazeera article and posted her translation to her blog, which according to a Google search, has since prompted pages and pages of condemnation from inside and outside of the Arab world (and of course approval from Harun Yahya).

Here’s what Malkawi blogged:

Al-Jazeera, which is considered by many to be the most professional Arabic news organization–the so-called “CNN of the Arab world” – has reported the story of the discovery of the oldest “human” skeleton by saying that it refutes Darwin’s theory of evolution. I translated the report below from Arabic word by word with a screen shot of the original Arabic story beneath it.

It proves how agenda and ideologically-driven Al-Jazeera is and how they are willing to forgo journalistic professionalism to further their agenda.

Here’s the first two paragraphs of what she translated:

American scientists have presented evidence that Darwin’s theory of evolution was wrong. An international team of researchers specialized in the origin of the human race in “Ken” State University (It’s actually Kent State but they spelled it wrong) and the University of California (-Berkeley, but they did not add it) have unveiled the oldest known evidence of humans on earth, which is an Ethiopian human skeleton dating back about 4.4 million years, which was named “Ardi.”

The team announced Thursday that Ardi’s discovery proves that humans did not evolve from ancestors that resemble chimpanzees, which refutes the longstanding assumption that humans evolved from monkeys.

The team has made no such announcement, and evolutionary theory has never posited that humans descended from chimpanzees.

The story only appeared in the Arabic language edition. Salman Hameed believes that Al Jazeera did not publish this in English because it is still trying to establish its credentials in the English language press, and this ‘nutty’ article would have been too damaging.