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bring to mind unique types of plants and animals such as horses,
camels, frogs, spiders, dolphins, palm trees and roses. The theory of
evolution posits a common origin of these various organisms. Yet
modern biologists describe the concept of species rather differently.
They define a species as a group of plants or animals capable of

mating and reproducing among themselves. For example, some
40,000 species of bees have been described. 128 In other words, in es-
sence these 40,000 different bees are all different sub-species within
the species of Apis. Genetic information belonging to the species
permits various changes to take place within this species, but a bee

can never turn into a butterfly because there are insuperable genet-
ic differences between the two species. In biology, this rule is gen-
erally referred to as genetic homeostasis, the principle that all at-
tempts to improve a living species remain within defined bounda-
ries, defined by the are insuperable barriers between species.
Changes within a single species are known as variations or sub-spe-
cies. The same rule applies to plants. Efforts over hundreds of years

have never given rise to a new species of plant. All that has oc-
curred is that by manipulating that plant's existing genetic informa-
tion, a range of observable variations have been allowed to devel-
op. The Danish scientist W.L. Johansson summarizes the situation:

THE MICROWORLD MIRACLE phasis cannot be selectively pushed beyond a certain point, that
The variations upon which Darwin and Wallace placed their em-

such variability does not contain the secret of "indefinite departure."
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Looked at from that perspective, evolutionists' distortion can

254 be seen more clearly. Plants and insects have not given rise to any