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The brain’s scent perception region analyzes the signals from differ-
ent receptors en masse. The smell which we define as one single percep-
tion occurs as the product of 1,000 different receptors. In other words, ev-
ery receptor is actually part of a mosaic, and a perceptible scent emerges
only once all the components of the mosaic have been assembled.
Professor John C. Leffingwell compares the way that receptors give
rise to perceptions of smell in the brain to the way that letters in particu-
lar combinations form words, notes form works of music, or a binary code
gives rise to computer programs. 40 Like every new scientific finding, of
course, this discovery represents a major disappointment for evolution-
ists. It is impossible for a play of Shakespeare’s to emerge by chance from
letters, or for a work by Mozart to arise from an assembly of notes. It is al-
so impossible for smells to emerge by chance from the olfactory system’s
“alphabet,” which is incomparably
Our ability to distinguish the various pleasant smells
of foods, flowers and drinks is a blessing bestowed
on human beings by God.
