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created and brought together for a specific purpose; and each pos-
sesses irreducible complexity. They can serve no purpose unless
they have emerged all at once, and fully formed. A too-short anten-
na or a foot able to cling to surfaces only some of the time will lead
to the death of the insect. For that reason, an animal's organs must
either be entirely developed as a whole or not at all. This rule ap-
plies to all other living things.

There is no aim or plan in the mechanisms of evolution. The
various natural minerals and compounds that comprise the soil,
water and air cannot combine to produce an insect. They cannot in-
stall data banks like DNA (of which no earlier examples exist) in-
side that insect, and cannot plan the conditions that will allow such
complex systems to develop. It is beyond the power of inanimate,
unconscious materials that constitute nature to give life to inani-

mate things.

No series of coincidences
can ever account for a
beetles' wings, their sub-
limely structured anten-
nae, and their perfectly
colored, bright carapaces,
and and other marvels of
creation. It is impossible
for lifeless, unconscious
compounds to come to
THE MICROWORLD MIRACLE reproduce them-
life and assume per-
fect forms that can

selves.

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