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A DEFINITIVE REPLY
TO EVOLUTIONIST
PROPAGANDA

of these countless complex structures:
To suppose that the eye with all its inim-
itable contrivances for adjusting the focus to
different distances, for admitting different
Skin
amounts of light, and for the correction of
spherical and chromatic aberration, could
have been formed by natural selection,
seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest
degree. 1

In order to better understand how stupid
it is to maintain that all living things and all
the structures and organs in them came about
by chance, it will be sufficient to recall just a 2
Axon
few of the features of the brain, the subject of 1
Meissner's
the BBC documentary. corpuscle
An adult's brain contains some 10 billion Node of Ranvier
neurons (nerve cells). Neurons have projec-
tions called "axons" and "dendrites," and by
Schwann
means of these, the neurons are intercon- cell
nected. Thanks to these connections, known
as synapses, one neuron is able to send mes- Myelin 3
sheath
sages to another. In his book Evolution: A
Theory in Crisis, the famous biochemist
Michael Denton states that the number of
Axon
connections between neurons is in the region
of 1 quadrillion (10 or 1,000,000,000,000,000).
15
He then goes on to say:
It is hard to imagine the multitude that 10 15 Direction of
nerve impulse
represents. Take half of the United States,
which is 1 million square miles, and imag-
ine it being covered by forest, with 10,000
trees per square mile. On each of the 10,000
trees, which are on each of the one million
square miles, there are 100,000 leaves. That's

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