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In terms of structure, the eyes of
humans and octopuses are very
much alike. However, the fact that
the two species have similar or-
gans doesn't imply that they
evolved from a common ancestor.
Not even evolutionists try to ac-
count for the similarity of the eyes
of the octopus and man by positing
a common ancestor.

evolutionary relationship. Two
large mammal categories, pla-
centals and marsupials, are an
example. Evolutionists consider

this distinction to have come
about when mammals first ap-
peared, and that each group

lived its own evolutionary his-
tory totally independent of the
other. But it is interesting that
there are "pairs" in placentals
and marsupials which are

nearly the same. The American
biologists Dean Kenyon and
Percival Davis make the follow-

ing comment:
According to Darwinian theory,
the pattern for wolves, cats,
squirrels, ground hogs,
anteaters, moles, and mice each
evolved twice: once in placental
mammals and again, totally in-
dependently, in marsupials.
This amounts to the astonishing
claim that a random, undirected process of mutation and natural selection somehow hit upon identical features
several times in widely separated organisms. 158
Extraordinary resemblances and similar organs like these, which evolutionist biologists cannot accept as

examples of "homology," show that there is no evidence for the thesis of evolution from a common ancestor.
What, in that case, could be the scientific explanation of the similar structures in living 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 living things according to their similar structures, and Richard

Owen regarded these structures as examples of "common" creation. In other words, similar organs (or, nowa-
days, similar genes) are held to be so because they were created 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 ancestor" made with regard to similar organs

is incorrect, and that the only possible explanation is common creation, confirming once again that living
things were created by God.

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