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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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