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creased. His experiments demonstrated the source of fire.
Objects burn when they absorb oxygen. The hypothetical sub-
stance called phlogiston had never existed!
Another example of an historic scientific error is the "ex-

planation" for the origin of electricity. In the 1780s, Italian
physician Luigi Galvani performed experiments with animals
and suddenly came across a new source of electricity—or so
he believed. In his experiments with frogs, he saw the frog's
leg muscles contract when in contact with metal. As a result,
he concluded that metal extracts electricity from the muscles
and nerves of animals.
Galvani had performed this experiment on one single leg
with one piece of metal. However, Alessandro Volta, a col-

league of his who suspected the real explanation behind this
experiment, began his own work on the subject. He attached
two ends of a wire to a frog's leg and observed no muscular
contraction. After this, Volta
went on to refute the proposal Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
that electricity came from a frog

Once upon a time, frogs were also the
subject of a scientific error that deceived
evolutionists.

Luigi Galvani

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