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The inner walls
of the cochlea in
the inner ear are
lined with tiny hairs.
These move in line with
the wave motion set up in
the liquid in the inner ear
by vibrations coming from
outside. In this way, the
electrical balance of the cells to
which the hairs are attached changes,
and forms the signals we perceive as
"sound."

hearing to happen, it is necessary for all the component parts of the
auditory system to be present and in complete working order. Take away
any one of these—for instance, the hammer bone in the middle ear—or
damage its structure, and you will no longer be able to hear anything. In
order for you to hear, such different elements as the ear drum, the
hammer, anvil and stirrup bones, the inner ear membrane, the cochlea, the
liquid inside the cochlea, the tiny hairs that transmit the vibrations from
the liquid to the underlying sensory cells, the latter cells themselves, the
nerve network running from them to the brain, and the hearing center in
the brain must all exist in complete working order. The system cannot
develop "by stages," because the intermediate stages would serve no
purpose.

Evolutionist Errors Regarding the Origin of the Ear
The irreducibly complex system in the ear is something that
evolutionists can never satisfactorily explain. When we look at the theories
evolutionists occasionally propose, we are met by a facile and superficial
logic. For example, the writer Veysel Atayman, who translated the book
Im Anfang War der Wasserstoff (In the Beginning was Hydrogen), by the
German biologist Hoimar von Ditfurth, into Turkish, and who has come
to be regarded as an "evolution expert" by the Turkish media, sums up his

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