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Biogenesis View, the countered in any other living thing. So-
me mammals may have a restricted abi-
When Darwin wrote his book On the
lity to move on two legs, such as bears
Origin of Species, the scientific world
and apes, and stand upright on rare occa-
widely accepted the belief that bacteria
sions for short periods of time, such as
could form themselves out of inanimate
when they wish to reach a food source or
matter. (See also Abiogenesis View,
scout for danger. But normally they pos-
the.) But the fact is that five years after
sess a stooped skeleton and walk on four
the publication of Darwin’s book, the
legs.
French biologist Louis Pasteur demolis-
However, bipedalism (walking on
hed this belief that represented the cor-
two legs) did not evolve from the four-
nerstone of evolution. 54 Pasteur sum-
legged gait of apes, as evolutionists wo-
marized the conclusions he arrived at as
uld have us believe.
a result of lengthy research and observa-
First off, bipedalism establishes no
tion: “The claim that inanimate matter
evolutionary advantage. An ape’s mode
can originate life is buried in history for
of walking is easier, faster and more effi-
good.” 55
cient than a human’s. Human beings
Pasteur’s opinion that “life can
cannot move by leaping from branch to
emerge only from life” is described as
branch like apes, nor run at 125 kilome-
biogenesis.
ters/hour (77 miles/hour) like cheetahs.
For a long time, adherents of the the-
Since they walk on two legs, humans ac-
ory of evolution held out against these
tually move very slowly over the gro-
findings of Pasteur’s. However, as scien-
und, making them one of the most de-
ce progressed and increasingly revealed
fenseless creatures in nature. According
the living cell’s complex structure, the
to the logic of evolution, there is therefo-
idea that life could form itself spontaneo-
re no point in apes “evolving” to wal-
usly faced an ever-worsening impasse.
king on two legs. On the contrary, accor-
ding to the survival of the fittest, human
beings should have begun walking on
Bipedalism
four.
In addition to the fossil record, the Another dilemma facing the evolu-
insuperable anatomical gulfs between tionists is that bipedalism is wholly in-
human beings and apes also invalidate compatible with Darwin’s model of sta-
the fairy tale of evolution. One of these ge-by-stage development. This model
has to do with walking. suggested by evolution presupposes so-
Human beings walk upright, on two me “compound” form of walking, both
legs, using a special movement not en- on four and two legs. Yet in his 1996

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