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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

that a tree has fallen over, you will think that it fell over by itself or
else was pushed over by the wind or some other force. However, if
only the trees to the right of the footpath have been knocked over, you
will realize that there has been intelligent design here, and that intel-
ligent beings have come here and felled the trees one by one, accord-

ing to a plan.
Therefore, let us consider living things and creation. If we learn
that, at a time when there was not even one living thing on the
Earth—when the Earth consisted only of inanimate soil, rocks, miner-
als, and sand—if under these conditions a cell no less complex than a
city suddenly sprang into existence, this will prove that it was created
by a force possessed of consciousness and intelligence. The same

mind which knows that a camera cannot come into being by chance
can also see that the eye—which was the model for the camera and
which possesses a far more flawless design—cannot have
come into being by chance, either. A mind which knows that

Amind that can understand that a
camera or a dialysis machine could
not come about by chance must
also be able to understand that the
eye and the kidney—which are so
much more complex—could not
come about by chance, either.

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