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Five-digit homology The hands and feet of a frog, a lizard,
a squirrel or a monkey are all of this
Just about every book about evoluti-
kind. Even the bone structures of birds
on points to the hand and foot structure and bats agree with this basic design.
of tetrapods —that is, land-dwelling ver- Therefore, evolutionists claim that all
tebrates—as an example of homology. these life forms are evolved from a sing-
Tetrapods have five digits on their front le common ancestor and for long, they
and rear feet. Even if these do not al- regarded the phenomenon of pentadact-
ways fully resemble fingers or toes, the- ylism as evidence of this. In our own ti-
se creatures are still regarded as penta- me, however, it was realized that this
dactyl (having five digits) because of claim actually lacked any scientific vali-
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