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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

The most certain way of testing the truth set out here is by means
of the fossil record, which definitively confirms the creation account.
The life forms in the layers of the Earth emerge fully formed, sud-
denly, and with all their individual features. The Cambrian explosion,
which took place some 550 million years ago, is one of the clearest

proofs that living things are created. The 100 or so phyla in these
strata emerge all of a sudden, with no evolutionary ancestors below
them in the fossil record. The sudden appearance of life forms be-
longing to 100 different phyla, on an Earth in which there had only
been single-celled and a few simple multi-celled creatures, and the
fact that they possessed very different and exceedingly complex or-

gans and systems, is of course evidence of an intelligent design, and
thus of creation. The reason why the NAS authors neglect to refer to
the Cambrian explosion even once throughout their book is their de-
sire to conceal these facts.
2. The complex structures and systems in living things cannot
have come about by random natural mechanisms.
Another proof that living things are created is the complex struc-
tures and systems that can only be explained by intelligent design.

Many organs and structures—such as the cell, the bacterial flagellum,
the blood clotting system, proteins, the brain, and the eye—all pos-
sess an extraordinary design and irreducible complexity. To claim
that these systems came into being from unconscious, inanimate mat-
ter and as the result of chance natural events is even less logical than
claiming that the video or television in your home came into being

from a pile of scrap caused by an earthquake. If there is a complex,
meaningful design somewhere, which cannot be accounted for by un-
conscious effects, then that means there is an intelligent power which
brought that design into being. This much is self-evident.
One of the irrational objections which evolutionists put forward
in order to deny this obvious truth is the question of how design is to

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