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An Imaginary Mechanism.) record. In long years of ex ca va tions,
At the same time, neo-Darwinists no in ter me di ate forms—that should,
al so sought to prove that the first liv - ac cord ing to neo-Darwinist the o ry,
ing or gan isms could have emerged have dem on strat ed that prim i tive
by chance un der the con di tions of spe cies grad u al ly evolved in to more
the pri me val Earth—as re quired by ad vanced ones—were found any -
the the o ry. The same fi as cos were where. Comparative an a tom i cal
ex pe ri enced in that field, too. All the stud ies showed that liv ing things
ex per i ments in tend ed to prove that once as sumed to have evolved from
life emerged by chance end ed in fail - one an oth er in fact pos sessed very
ures. Probability cal cu la tions dif fer ent an a tom i cal fea tures and
showed that not a sin gle pro tein, the could nev er be one an oth er's fore -
ba sic build ing blocks of the cell, run ners or lat er de scend ants.
could form by chance. As for the cell Neo-Darwinism was not a sci en -
it self, the small est liv ing unit, not a tif ic the o ry, but rath er an ide o log i cal
sin gle one could be formed even in dog ma. For that rea son, ev o lu tion's
lab o ra to ries with the most high ly ad her ents still con tin ue to sup port
ad vanced 20th cen tu ry tech nol o gy. the the o ry in the face of all the ev i -
Then how could a cell have come dence against it. In their view, ev o lu -
about as the re sult of chance in the tion is a be lief that can nev er be
prim i tive, un con trolled con di tions aban doned.
of the pri me val world, as ev o lu tion -
ists claimed?
Neo-Darwinist the o ry was al so
dealt a fa tal blow by the fos sil