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A Call to Reflection

As you sat watching television, were someone to tell you that the
broadcast came, not from any television station, but as the result of elec-
tromagnetic waves forming at random in the air and that the television
had not been produced in a factory but had come into being spontaneous-
ly over the years from the atoms and molecules in your home, what
would you think?
You would probably imagine that person was joking. Certainly you
would not take his words seriously. When you realized that they were ac-
tually serious in making that claim, you would conclude they had lost
their reason. That is because in that example, we are dealing with a tech-
nological design: A television set is a device specially manufactured
with the aim of receiving televised broadcasts. In short, both the tel-
evision and the broadcasts—and every aspect of the relationship

between the two—have been planned down to the finest de-
tail. In this complex system, there is absolutely no room
for chance.
Yet evolutionists maintain something
even more irrational. The view of Darwin and
his evolutionist followers may be summarized
as follows: According to their logic, the scent
perception mechanism—far more highly
advanced than television broadcast tech-
nology and which is still not yet fully un-
derstood—and the flawless harmony
between the countless scent
molecules and the nose,
came into being as the
result of so-called coin-