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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

ing things? The answer to
that question was given
before Darwin's theory
of evolution came to
dominate the world of

science. Scientists like
Carl Linnaeus, who
first systematized liv-
ing things according
to their similar struc-
tures, and Richard
Owen regarded
these structures as
examples of
Richard Owen
"common de-
sign." According to this idea, similar organs (or, nowadays, similar
genes) are held to be so because they were intelligently designed to
serve a particular purpose, not because they evolved by chance from
a common ancestor.
Modern scientific findings show that the claim of a "common an-
cestor" made with regard to similar organs is incorrect, and that the

only possible explanation is common design. In other words, living
things were created according to a common plan.

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The NAS goes on to suggest that a claim, which is a matter of dis-
pute even among evolutionists, is established fact—namely, that the
first human beings emerged in Africa and spread from there to the
rest of the world. Yet, there is absolutely no evidence to support this
claim. In an article published in Nature in 2002, Tim White dealt with
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