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9 and this was then launched in to ev o lu tion in de pend ent ly of one an -
space. Examinations re vealed that oth er.
these mi cro-or gan isms all died with in According to ev o lu tion ists, these
sev en hours. Yet ac cord ing to this hy - liv ing things de vel oped in par al lel to
poth e sis, the bac te ria that sup pos ed ly
one an oth er and came to pos sess
gave rise to life must have trav eled for
sim i lar or gans; how e ver this might
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have come about. To cite one ex am -
The crys tal-clear fact that emer - ple, the struc ture of the eye in squid
ges is that it is im pos si ble for mi cro- and ver te brates is iden ti cal, though
or gan isms to reach Earth from out er no at tempt is made to con struct an
space. However, even if large quan - ev o lu tion a ry re la tion ship among
ti ties of ami no ac ids had come from these creatures. Evolutionists
space, and even if the en tire sur face claimed par al lel ev o lu tion to ac -
of the prim i tive Earth world was count for the or i gin of these or gans.
cov ered with them, this would still However hard it is to ex plain how
not ac count for the or i gin of life. It such de vel oped or gans came in to ex -
would be im pos si ble for ami no ac ids is tence once, it's quite im pos si ble to
to com bine ran dom ly and hap haz - ac count for how they might have
ard ly and form an ex ceed ing ly com - come in to be ing twice, and in de -
plex, three-di men sion al pro tein; for pend ent ly.
pro teins to form the or gan elles in Briefly, the on ly dif fer ence be -
cells; and then for these or gan elles to tween par al lel ev o lu tion and oth er
pro duce the mi rac u lous struc ture of forms of ev o lu tion is that the former
the cell it self. needs even more chan ces to come
about. The more flaw less struc tures
ap pear in liv ing things, the less sci -
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en tif ic ap pear ev o lu tion ists' sce nar i -
IMPASSE, THE
os.
One of the sub jects that pose the
worst di lem mas for ev o lu tion ists is
those or gans with ex ceed ing ly com - PASTEUR, LOUIS
plex struc tures. Evolutionists claim As a re sult of lengthy re search
that liv ing things with very com plex and ex per i ments, the fa mous French
or gans in com mon but with no com - bi ol o gist Louis Pasteur con clud ed
mon an ces tor must have un der gone that: "Never will the doc trine of

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