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t is also suggested in the booklet Science and Creationism
that the first cells might have come to earth from Mars.
(Science and Creationism p. 7)
Mars is a refuge for evolutionists who are unable to explain

how the first cell might have come into being by chance in the con-
ditions of the primeval world. However, a theory which cannot ex-
plain how the first cell came into existence on Earth will encounter
just the same difficulty on Mars. Indeed, a great many difficulties
and obstacles will face a cell assumed to have emerged on Mars in
the course of its journey to the Earth, which makes the claim that
this first cell emerged on Mars quite untenable. The well-known

physicist George Gamow states how any cell on such a "space voy-
age" would inevitably die:
It must be borne in mind, however, that such travelling spores
would be threatened by another agent much more perilous than
the danger of "freezing to death." It is now known that the ultravi-
olet rays of the Sun, which are almost entirely absorbed by the ter-
restrial atmosphere, will rapidly kill any micro-organism that
ventures beyond this protective shield. Thus, life must be in-
evitably extinguished in such travelling spores long before they
are able to reach even the nearest planet. Besides, q u i t e
apart from the problem of the preservation of life during the long
interstellar voyage, the "cosmozoan hypothesis" becomes rather
senseless in the light of modern knowledge concerning the age
and origin of the stellar universe. 11
Professor Gamow's words are very clear, and the experiment
shows that even if a cell did somehow emerge on Mars, it would be
impossible for it to reach the Earth.

Here, what evolutionists ignore is the complexity of the cell

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