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Biomimetics: Technology Imitates Nature




                                                    Evolutionist newspapers and maga-
                                                    zines often print pictures of primitive
                                                    man. The only available source for
                                                    these pictures is the imagination of
                                                    the artist. Evolutionary theory has
                                                    been so dented by scientific data that
                                                    today we see less and less of it in the
                                                    serious press.


                    FALSE                           The point emerges that if we examine
                    FALSE

                                                    the fossil record in detail, whether at
                                                    the level of orders or of species, we
                                                    find – over and over again – not
                                                    gradual evolution, but the sudden ex-
                                                    plosion of one group at the expense of
                                                    another. 147
                                                         This means that in the fos-
                                                    sil record, all living species
                                                    suddenly emerge as fully
              formed, without any intermediate forms in between. This is just the op-
              posite of Darwin's assumptions. Also, this is very strong evidence that
              all living things are created. The only explanation of a living species
              emerging suddenly and complete in every detail without any evolu-

              tionary ancestor is that it was created. This fact is admitted also by the
              widely known evolutionist biologist Douglas Futuyma:
                   Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possible explanations for the
                   origin of living things. Organisms either appeared on the earth fully developed
                   or they did not. If they did not, they must have developed from pre-existing
                   species by some process of modification. If they did appear in a fully developed

                   state, they must indeed have been created by some omnipotent intelligence. 148


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