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oped in place of a fin ger, but does Aristotle main tained that one part of
not serve as one—say ing, for ex am - all the cells in the body came to geth -
ple, that it can not strip shoots. er to form the egg and sperm. He al -
However, they al so say that it is suf - so sug gest ed that all the chan ges tak -
fi cient ly de vel oped for grasp ing. ing place in the body through out an
That is in any case the job of this or gan ism's life could be passed
sixth fin ger, and the pan da has along to lat er gen er a tions.
enough oth er fin gers to per form oth - This idea was tak en up by
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er tasks per fect ly. The idea that this Lamarck and Darwin in the 19th
struc ture's ide al shape would be that cen tu ry, al though it was even tu al ly
of a com plete fin ger is a ground less, shown to be false. Reproductive cells
based on ev o lu tion ist prej u dices. are not a prod uct of the body's cells,
The bone is per fect ly suit a ble in its and chan ges in them do not af fect
present state. the ovum and sper ma ta zoa. (See
One study pub lished in Nature Lamarck's Evolution Scenario.)
mag a zine in 1999 shows that in the
pan da's nat u ral hab i tat, its thumb is
high ly ef fi cient. The study, car ried PANSPERMIA THEORY, THE
out by four Japanese re search ers and Faced by the fact that ami no ac ids
per formed us ing com put er ized to - can not form by chance, ev o lu tion ists
mog ra phy and mag net ic res o nance looked for a new ex pla na tion of how
im ag ing, con clud ed that the pan da's life might have aris en spon ta ne ous ly
thumb is "one of the most ex traor di - un der the con di tions of the pri me val
na ry ma nip u la tion sys tems in mam - world. According to their new
mal ia." 176 claims, ami no ac ids in me te ors fall -
Evolutionists look for in com pat i - ing to Earth re act ed with or gan ic
bil i ty or flaws in na ture on ly to find sub stan ces and thus gave rise to life.
ev i dence for de ny ing Allah's im mac - According to this view, the first
u late cre a tion. Yet these ef forts have or gan ic sub stance orig i nat ed be yond
al ways proved fruit less. The pan da's the Earth, on an oth er plan et. The
thumb is yet an oth er in stance of this. spores or seeds of these or gan isms
were then car ried to Earth by me te -
ors, and life thus be gan. In the light
PANGENESIS THEORY, THE
of our cur rent knowl edge, how e ver,
The an cient Greek phi los o pher it doesn't ap pear pos si ble for spores

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