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The existence of
similar wings
among living things
that evolutionists them-
selves admit are not evolutionarily related
represents another dilemma for them.

One of the most concrete examples that totally undermines the
evolutionist thesis in this area can be seen in mammals. Modern biolo-

gists are agreed that all mammals are divided into three categories: pla-
centals, marsupials, and monotremes. Evolutionists assume that this
division goes back to the very beginning and that both categories have
a completely independent evolutionary history. How interesting it is,
therefore, that there are almost identical "pairs" in placentals and mar-

supials. Wolves, cats, squirrels, ant-eaters, moles, and mice all have
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their marsupial counterparts with closely similar morphologies. In
other words, according to the theory of evolution, completely indepen-
dent mutations must have twice chanced to produce these living things
in exactly the same way! This represents a terrible dilemma for evolu-

tionists.
One of the fascinating similarities between the placental and mar-
supial categories is that between the North American Wolf and the
Tasmanian Wolf. The former is placental and the latter marsupial.
Evolutionary biologists believe that these two different species have a to-
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tally different evolutionary history. (It is assumed that relations between
marsupials and placentals have been severed since the Australian conti-

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