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must have had a sequential development
lasting millions of years.

But if so, then taste perception must
have stood by, functionless, until the de-
velopment of the sense of smell—some-
thing the mechanisms of evolution itself
would make impossible. According to the
theory of natural selection, any structure

with no function will atrophy, become
vestigial, and eventually disappear.
All this means that even while evo-
lutionists cannot explain how the extraor-
dinarily complex taste perception
evolved, they also face a major problem in
accounting for how it evolved in coopera-

tion with the sense of smell. How did two
different systems, each of which permits
the perception of chemical substances,
evolve? The evolutionists have no answer
to give.
Anyone possessed of conscience and

consciousness will clearly see that for the
way that the brain, tongue, taste nerves,
papillae, taste buds, taste cells, taste re-
ceptors, various different proteins and en-

The sense of taste is a blessing bestowed on
human beings by God, and a manifestation of
His compassion.

The Miracles of Smell and
Taste