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p until the 19th cen- and that this cell had gradually de-
tury the great majo- veloped as the result of coinci-

rity of people dences and given rise to the living
U believed in the exis- world we know today. As soon as
tence of God and the fact that all this theory was launched it attrac-
living things are created by Him. In ted enormous interest from the
the middle of the 19th century, ho- adherents of various irreligious
wever, an amateur naturalist by ideologies, because this heretical
the name of Charles Darwin clai- idea represented a supposed
med that life had begun with the scientific foundation for atheism.

chance formation of a single cell

Not a single fossil exists to show been fish, insects have always
that living things develo- been insects, birds have always
ped gradually, in other been birds and reptiles have always
words, that they evolved. been reptiles. Not a single fossil sho-
The fossil record obtained wing a transition between living spe-
from excavations all over cies, from fish to amphibians for
the world over the last example, or from reptiles to birds, has
150 years or so has pro- ever been seen. In short, the fossil re-
ved that fish cord has definitively refuted the fun-
have al- damental claim of the theory of
ways evolution, the idea that species chan-
ged into one another over the course
of long periods of time.

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