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plete clotting system wouldn't have time for the other parts of the
system to be completed and would die long before it could repro-
duce. Consequently, this one example invalidates the claim that
organisms evolved from intermediary species. But we could mul-
tiply these examples exhaustively, because living bodies continue
their existence on behalf of hundreds of such interdependent sys-
tems.
The Creator of all of these systems is God.

blood seeping out
wound
At the site of a
wound, clotting
enzymes start
their duty.
prothrombin
fibrinogen
Direction of
blood flow
For clotting,
first Stuart
factor activates
prothrombin.
Stuart factor

prothrombin thrombin In this way,
prothrombin is con-
verted to thrombin.

thrombin
fibrinogen fibrin
Thrombin converts
fibrinogen into fibrin
fibers, allowing a clot
to form.

At the site of a wound, many interdependent proteins go into action to
allow blood clotting. These proteins, activated when the body receives a
wound, in turn activate each of the other proteins required for clotting.

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