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"The evolution theory can by no means be regarded as an innocuous naturalphilosophy. It is a serious obstruction to biological research. It obstructsas has beenrepeatedly shownthe attainment of consistent results, even from uniformexperimental material. For everything must ultimately be forced to fit this theory. Anexact biology cannot, therefore, be built up."*H. Neilsson, Sythetische Artbildng, 1954,p. 11.

TOO MUCH COMPLEXITY IN JUST ONE CELL

Just one cell is bigger than New York City!

"The cell is as complicated as New York City."*Look, January 16, 1962, p. 46.

"A bacterium is far more complex than any inanimate system known to man. There isnot a laboratory in the world which can compete with the biochemical activity of thesmallest living organism."Sir James Gray, chapter in Science Today (1961), p. 21[professor of Zoology, Cambridge University].

"Now we know that the cell itself is far more complex than we had imagined. It includes

thousands of functioning enzymes, each one of them a complex machine itself.Furthermore, each enzyme comes into being in response to a gene, a strand of DNA.The information content of the geneits complexitymust be as great as that of theenzyme it controls."*Frank B. Salisbury, "Doubts about the Modern Synthetic Theory ofEvolution," in American Biology Teacher, September 1971, pp. 336-338.

"A living cell is a marvel of detailed and complex architecture. Seen through amicroscope there is an appearance of almost frantic activity. On a deeper level it isknown that molecules are being synthesized at an enormous rate. Almost any enzymecatalyzes the synthesis of more than 100 other molecules per second. In ten minutes, asizeable fraction of total mass of a metabolizing bacterial cell has been synthesized. Theinformation content of a simple cell had been estimated as around 1012bits, comparableto about a hundred million pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica."*Carl Sagan, "Life"in Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropaedia (1974 ed.), pp. 893-894.

"Each of those 100 trillion cells functions like a walled city. Power plants generate thecell's energy. Factories produce proteins, vital units of chemical commerce. Complextransportation systems guide specific chemicals from point to point within the cell andbeyond. Sentries at the barricades control the export and import markets, and monitorthe outside world for signs of danger. Disciplined biological armies stand ready tograpple with invaders. A centralized genetic government maintains order."Peter

Gwynne, *Sharon Begley, and *Mary Hager, "The Secrets of the Human Cell," inNewsweek, August 20, 1979, p. 48.

CELLS ONLY REPRODUCE AFTER THEIR KIND

Cells consistently reproduce "after their kind"the law of Genesis 1 [Genesis1:12, 21, 24, etc.].

"The cells which form a carrot or form the liver of a mouse consistently retain theirrespective tissue and organism identities after countless cycles of reproduction."*Phillip C. Hanawalt, "Simple Inorganic Molecules to Complex Free-living Cells" in

Molecules to Living Cells (1980), p. 3.

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"All life . . reproduces with incredible fidelity."*Lynn Margulis, Symbiosis in CellEvolution (1981), p. 87.

"So perfect is the original one-cell form of life, and so potent both for body building, foractivating nerves and muscles, and for procreation, that the cell has never altered itsbasic size or nature from the beginning of life even to this day."*Rutherford Platt, TheRiver of Life (1956), p. 100.

EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES ARE RIDICULOUS

They do not explain the facts.

The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell couldbe arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidentlynonsense of a high order."*Fred Hoyle, "The Big Bang in Astronomy," in New Scientist(1981) Vol. 9, pp. 521, 527.

"I think it is fair to say that all the facile speculations and discussions published duringthe last 10-15 years explaining the mode of origin of life have been shown to be far too

simple-minded and to bear very little weight. The problem in fact seems as far fromsolution as it ever was.

"The origin of even the simplest cell poses a problem hardly less difficult. The mostelementary type of cell constitutes a `mechanism' unimaginably more complex than anymachine yet thought up, let alone constructed, by man. There is no real clue as to theway in which any of these riddles were solved, so it is open to anyone to espouse anytheory which he finds helpful."*W. Thorpe, "Reductionism in Biology," in Studies in thePhilosophy of Biology (1974), pp. 116-117.

"To grasp in detail the physio-chemical organization of the simplest cell is far beyondour capacity."

*Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey (1957), p. 206 [Quoting German

biologist *Von Bertalanffy].

"One does occasionally observe, however, a tendency for the beginning zoologicaltextbook to take the unwary reader by a hop, skip, and jump from the little steamingpond or the beneficent chemical crucible of the sea, into the lower world of life withsuch sureness and rapidity that it is easy to assume that there is no mystery about thismatter at all, or, if there is, that it is a very little one.

"This attitude has indeed been sharply criticized by the distinguished British biologist,

Woodger, who remarked some years ago: `Unstable organic compounds and chlorophyllcorpuscles do not persist or come into existence in nature on their own account at thepresent day, and consequently it is necessary to postulate that conditions were oncesuch that this did happen although, and in spite of the fact that, our knowledge ofnature does not give us any warrant for making such a supposition . . It is simpledogmatismasserting that what you want to believe did in fact happen.' "*LorenEisley, the Immense Journey (1957), pp. 199-200.

EACH CELL IS FULL OF COMPLICATED PARTS

We still do not understand the nature and complexity of these interrelated

parts.

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"Life itself is incredible, starting with every cell of every organ of every organism that SirArthur has investigated. `Every organism,' wrote nineteenth-century Germanphilosopher, Schoepenhauer, using words with which modern biologists will concur, `isorganic through and through in all its parts, and nowhere are these, not even in theirsmallest particles, mere aggregates of inorganic matter.' A cell may contain 100,000million atoms and they are atoms in specific order."*Michael Pitman, Adam andEvolution (1984), pp. 26-27.

"Formerly, it was thought that a cell was composed of nucleus and a few other parts ina `sea' of cytoplasms, with large spaces in the cell unoccupied. Now it is known that acell literally `swarms,' that is, it's packed full of important functioning units necessaryto the life of the cell and the body containing it. The theory of evolution assumes lifedeveloped from a `simple' cellbut science today demonstrates that there is no suchthing as a simple cell."Howard Peth, Blind Faith (1990), p. 77.

"To grasp in detail the physico-chemical organization of the simplest cell is far beyondour capacity."*Von Bertalanffy, quoted in *Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey (1957),p. 206.

"A bacterium is far more complex than any inanimate system known to man. There isnot a laboratory in the world which can compete with the biochemical activity of thesmallest living organism."*Sir James Gray, "The Science of Life," chapter in ScienceToday (1961), p. 21.

"The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible toaccept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind offreakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable froma miracle."*Michael Denton, Evolution: Theory In Crisis (1985), p. 264.

ALL ITS PARTS HAD TO BEGIN OPERATING AT THE SAME TIME

Gradual changeover could not succeed.

"It is as though everything must happen at once: The entire system must come intobeing as one unit, or it is worthless."*F. Salisbury, "Doubts about the Modern SyntheticTheory of Evolution," in American Biology Teacher (1971), Vol. 33, pp. 335-336.

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY OFFERS NO SOLUTIONS

We must look elsewhere for answers.

"The events that gave rise to that first primordial cell are totally unknown, matters forguesswork and a standing challenge to scientific imagination."*Lewis Thomas,Forward, in *Robert M. Pool (Ed.), Incredible Machine (1986), p. 7.

"I am not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or that his influence in scientific andpublic thinking has been beneficial . . the success of Darwinism was accomplished by adecline in scientific integrity."*W.R. Thompson, Introduction to *Charles Darwin, Originof the Species.

"This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of

the categories Nature presents to us, is the inheritance of biology from The Origin of theSpecies. To establish the continuity required by theory, historical arguments areinvoked, even though historical evidence is lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile

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