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secreted to protect the stomach mouth salivary
cavity glands
from it.
salivary
When the stomach is empty, glands
the secretion that breaks up pro- oesophagus
teins, that is, foods derived from
animals such as meat, is not pro-
duced in the stomach. In fact, it
exists in the form of a harmless
substance without any disintegra-
liver
tive properties. As soon as a pro-
stomach
tein-containing food enters the gall-bladder
stomach, the HCI is secreted in pancreas
the stomach and breaks this neu- large
intestine
tral substance down into pro-
small
teins. Thus, when the stomach is intestine
empty, this acid does not injure
the stomach that is itself made of
rectum
proteins.
It is noteworthy that ‘evolu- anus
tion’ can never explain the exis-
The digestive system is one in which
tence of such a complex system, mouth, saliva, stomach, pancreas, liver
for it defends the idea that comp- and intestines operate in harmony and
discharge their own functions. If one or
lex structures around us gradu- more of these complementary organs do
ally evolved from primitive orga- not function fully, the whole system
becomes locked in stasis.
nisms by the accumulation of
small structural improvements. However, it is obvious that the system in the
stomach could not have evolved gradually and step-by-step. Absence of even
a single factor would bring an end to the organism. One example is sufficient
to better understand the inconsistency of the theory of evolution. Think of an
organism that wears down its own stomach by the acid it produces there - first
its stomach would be destroyed painfully and then its other organs would be
consumed by the same acid. The organism would die by eating itself alive.
The liquid in the stomach acquires the capacity to break down proteins
after a series of chemical reactions. Think of an organism within the process of
evolution, in the stomach of which such a chemical transformation cannot be
realised. If the liquid in the stomach of an organism did not acquire the feature
of decomposing proteins, that organism would not be able to digest food, and
eventually would die with a lump of undigested food in its stomach.
Let us look at the subject from another point of view. The stomach cells

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