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f today's journalists, writers, philosophers, scien-
tists, academics or university students were sur-
veyed as to why they believe in the theory of
evolution and what the evidence for it is, most of their
answers would be unscientific myths. We can list the most
common of these myths, together with why they are erro-
neous:

1. Proponents of evolution claim that scientific experi-
ments have shown that life came into being spontaneously, as
the result of chemical reactions. But in fact, no scientific exper-
iment supports this claim and, moreover, it has been shown to
be theoretically impossible.
2. They think that the fossil record proves that there has

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