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The reason why living things possess similar structures and features is that they all have one
Creator: The Almighty God.
tion produced in the light of evolutionist preconceptions. It is, of
course, a fact that the code which translates the nucleotide sequences
into amino-acid sequences is the same in all living things, and that the
proteins in all living things consist of the same 20 amino acids. The
NAS's error lies in inferring from this fact the conclusion that living
things descended from a common ancestor. This inference is quite
ridiculous. Evolutionists first assume that the theory of evolution is
an established fact, and then claim that facts deduced from the theory
constitute evidence in support of the theory. However, the fact that all
living things possess the same features and functions can also be in-
terpreted as proof of the existence of a common design. There is one
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