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COCKROACH
Age: 125 million years
Period: Cretaceous
Location: Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil
". . . Cockroaches, which are one of the most venerable living insect groups, have remained
more or less unchanged since the Permian, yet they have undergone as many mutations as
Drosophila, a Tertiary insect." (Pierre-Paul Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms, New York:
Academic Press, 1977, p. 87)
The Permian Period comprises the era of time between 290 and 248 million years ago. In the
above extract, Paul Grassé states that on the one hand, mutations—one of the imaginary
mechanisms of evolution—do not actually exert the effects of which evolutionists dream. On
the other hand, he notes that cockroaches have not undergone the slightest alteration over
hundreds of millions of years. Cockroaches that existed 290 million years ago, those like the
one pictured that lived 100 million years ago, and those still alive today are all identical to one
another. Faced with this fact, evolutionists have no alternative but to retreat into silence.
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