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duce a human intelligence that can dance and
sing; take pleasure in symmetry, esthetics and

color coordination; design automobiles; write
books and read them; remember what they

learned; think and calculate; feel excitement,

pleasure and love, mercy and compassion and
longing; have their appetites whetted by the

aroma of a cake baking in the oven; enjoy a meal;

laugh over a funny statement; have fun with their
friends and defend a deeply-held idea.

Combine insentient atoms and molecules any

way you choose, but never will you be able to
make one of these creatures or beings—not even a

single cell of one of them.

So, how can anyone claim that a living

thing—which cannot be produced by human ef-
forts employing the whole of human knowledge—

can come into being from unconscious atoms

through the agency of blind chance? Any aware
and intelligent person will immediately realize

that obviously, human beings and other living
creatures cannot be the work of chance. Anyone

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