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The Dark Spell of Darwinism

believed that cells were simply "homogeneous globules of plasm;" that is,
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he knew nothing of their function or complex structure. Over the past cen-
tury, however, the rapid development of technology made it possible to in-
vestigate all aspects of a cell's amazingly complex structure, which proved
to be one of the twentieth century's most important discoveries. Today, it is
understood that the cell is one of the most complex structures known.
As in a factory, a cell has various sections where different processes
occur, with "workers" entrusted with different duties. Among these sec-
tions are power plants, factories that produce the enzymes and hormones
necessary for life, a data bank storing information needed for all the prod-
ucts to be produced, complex transportation systems to move raw materi-
als and finished products from one area to another, pipelines, advanced
laboratories and refineries to break down imported raw materials into us-

able components and cell membranes that expertly control what material is
taken in and sent out. These make up only one aspect of the cell's complex
structure.
W. H. Thorpe, an evolutionist scientist, says that "The most elementary
type of cell constitutes a 'mechanism' unimaginably more complex than any

In Ernst Haeckel's time, primi-
tive microscopes like the one
pictured could provide informa-
tion about only the outer surface
of a cell. That claims based on
this level of knowledge can still
be supported in the sci-
entific environment of
the twenty-first century
can be explained only by the
Darwinist spell.

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