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               show the important fact that bacteria,  arch vessel and claimed that this was an
               thought by evolutionists to be the “most  inanimate substance that turned into li-
               primitive of life forms”, have an extraor-  ving matter. This so-called life-assuming
               dinarily complex structure.         matter is known as Bathybus haeckelii
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               Bathybus haeckelii                  ned life to be just such a simple matter.
               (Haeckel’s mud)                        However, 20 -century technology
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                  The complex structure of the cell was  investigated life down to the very finest
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                  Darwin suggested that the first cell
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               Ernst Haeckel, one of Darwin’s suppor-
               ters, examined under the microscope the
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