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Douglas Futuyma Jeffrey S. Levinton
If they did appear in a fully devel- Therefore, something special and
oped state, they must indeed have very mysterious—some highly crea-
been created by some omnipotent tive “force”—existed...
intelligence.
The evolutionist biologist Douglas Futuyma sets out this clear-
ly:
Organisms either appeared on the earth fully developed, or they did
not. If they did not, they must have developed from pre-existing spe-
cies by some process of modification. If they did appear in a fully de-
veloped state, they must indeed have been created by some omnipo-
tent intelligence. 154
As Futuyma puts it, the Cambrian explosion shows that living
things on Earth emerged “fully developed.” Jeffrey S. Levinton, a
New York State University professor of ecology and evolution, ac-
cepts this in “The Big Bang of Animal Evolution,” an article he wrote
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