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The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

Did a liv ing thing alleged to have come into being by
coin ci dence also take the appro pri ate pre cau tion ary
meas ures by coin ci dence? No mat ter how irra tion al that
claim may be, let us again assume that this actu al ly hap -
pened and con tin ue with what is no more than con jec -
ture: the first cell, hav ing come into exis tence by coin ci -
dence, dis ap peared due to an ina bil i ty to with stand the
atmos pher ic con di tions. New cells then emerged—again
as the result of coin ci dence. But these, too, could not sur -
vive. The cells that formed later learned from what hap -
pened to their fore run ners and decid ed that they should
not enter that primordial atmos phere unpro tect ed.
Again with the help of coin ci dence, by means of trial
and error, they acquired an outer shell—in other words,
a mem brane, with all the nec es sa ry char ac ter is tics—to
pro tect them from these harsh con di tions. But con sid er:
can an uncon scious cell with no mind or brain come up
with such an effect ive solu tion for itself, or can coin ci -
dence do so? To explain in terms of coin ci dence for the
cell pos sess ing a mem brane to pro tect it from harm ful
exter nal sub stan ces and to arrange for the req ui site nour -
ish ing sub stan ces to enter is a vio la tion of sci ence. A cell
can not sur vive for even a short time in the absence of
these fea tures, and even the slight est error would have
fatal con se quen ces. In addi tion, this flaw less per fec tion
would have to be present not only in the first cell, but
would have to be main tained in all those that came after.
Darwinists' expla na tions regard ing the first cell are
noth ing more than accounts, based entire ly on assump -

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