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P erhaps the worst of the totally unre-
alistic claims in the NAS booklet ap-
P pear in the chapter "New Evidence from
Molecular Biology." Once again, the NAS proves in this chap-
ter that it totally discounts all the research and observations
over the last 50 years, and supports the theory of evolution in the
face of the scientific facts.
Those scientific facts it regards as proof of the theory of evolu-

tion in fact bear no such interpretation. The NAS and other evolu-
tionists accept the theory of evolution as a proven scientific fact first,
and only afterwards interpret the results of scientific research and ob-
servation in the light of that theory. These interpretations are then of-
fered as evidence of evolution. As we shall be seeing in the following
pages, such procedures are examples of the circular reasoning em-
ployed by evolutionists.

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The basic claim of this chapter is that "The unifying prin-
ciple of common descent that emerges from all the forego-
ing lines of evidence is being reinforced by the
discoveries of modern biochemistry and molecular
biology." (Science and Creationism, p. 17). The
first example of these proofs in the book-
let is nothing other than an assump-