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HARUN YAHYA

given to them, and organize it in such a way—by the will and with
the permission of Allah—to establish an order within the body.
Therefore, they cannot be the cause of the emergence of new infor-
mation, new structures and new organs needed for a completely dif-
ferent life form.
Dr. Paul Chien, chairman of the Department of Biology at the
University of San Francisco, who discovered the Cambrian fauna in
the Chinese Chengjiang formation and carried out lengthy research
into them, has this to say:

There are other theories, too, like that of Berkeley professor James
Valentine . . . In developmental biology, the study of embryo develop-
ment, there’s been a big discovery of something called Hox genes.
They are regulatory genes, and they turn on and off sequences, the de-
velopment of the eye and so on.

Valentine infers that primitive organisms accumulated enough Hox
genes to suddenly make a different body plan. So he’s trying to corre-
late Cambrian explosion with the development or accumulation of
Hox genes. But I think there are many theoretical difficulties he’s fac-
ing.

John Wells has the idea that Hox genes won’t do it. He claims that Hox
genes are only switches. You can put the switch on different systems
and it just turns on and off. You’re not getting new information out of
Hox genes. 149
Another point that evolutionists are unable to explain is how
the first Hox gene could have emerged. Evolutionists maintain that
the accumulations formed by Hox genes led to the Cambrian varie-
ty, yet they are silent on the subject of how these regulatory genes—
with an exceedingly complex structure, perfect sequence and func-
tioning—came into existence. Further, they claim that the different
genes that regulate the development of different characteristics

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