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Conversely, if such similarities are gene- which is why they resemble one another.
tically far apart, then the possibility of Today’s scientific findings demons-
any common ancestor is not tenable. On trate that the claim of common ancestry
the contrary, it can be seen that the fact regarding similar organs is invalid, and
of creation is the true explanation. (See that the only possible explanation is
Common creation, below.) No evolu- common creation.
tionary relationship can be claimed bet-
ween living things that are genetically so
Communism and
very different from one another. (See
evolution
Homology.)
Communism, elevated to its highest
point in the 19th century by the two Ger-
Common creation
man philosophers Karl Marx and Fried-
Similar organs or similar molecular rich Engels, led to such bloodshed as to
structures in living things provide no sup- dwarf even the state massacres of the Na-
port for the theory that they are evolved zis and Imperialist nations. (See Marx,
from any common forerunner. (See Ho- Karl.) Even though communism is gene-
mologous organs.) On the contrary, these rally agreed to have collapsed in 1991,
similarities refute the possibility of con- this dark ideology still continues to influ-
jecturing any hierarchical evolutionary fa- ence people, and its materialist philo-
mily trees among living things. If one sophy turns them away from religion.
comparison of proteins suggests that hu- This ideology caused a wave of glo-
man beings are similar to chickens; and bal terror in the 20th century, but actu-
another comparison, similar to the nema- ally represents a stream of thought that’s
tode worms; in, and a third analysis to been around since ancient times. Mate-
crocodiles, then it cannot be proposed that rialism was a philosophy that regarded
these living things evolved from one anot- matter as all that exists. Communism
her—or from any other common ancestor. was base in turn constructed upon that
Scientists such as Carolus Linnaeus philosophy, and first made its appearan-
or Richard Owen, who both first raised ce in the 19 th century.
the subject of similar organs in living Marx and Engels, communism’s in-
things, regarded such organs as examples tellectual founders, sought to describe
of common creation. (See Linnaeus, Ca- materialist philosophy in terms of a met-
rolus) In other words, similar organs did hod known as Dialectics (which see)
not evolve by chance from any shared fo- Marx maintained that the entire history
rerunner. Quite the contrary; they were of humanity was one of conflict, that on-
created to perform similar functions, going struggle of his time was between

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