To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough to cover a great city like London or New York. What we would then see would be an object of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design. On the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings, like the port holes of a vast space ship, opening and closing to allow a continual stream of materials to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of these openings we would find ourselves in a world of supreme technology and bewildering complexity. .Michael Denton
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In the beginning of the 20th century, when our planet was still in its infancy, Charles Darwin made a discovery that changed the world. His theory of evolution was based on a fundamental principle: that all life on earth has evolved from a common ancestor. He discovered that all living creatures share characteristics and attributes which are patterned after their ancestors. This is because, over millions of years, the patterning of biological forms has been preserved through natural selection.
In other words, organisms that were best adapted to their environments survived while those that were not, did not. In addition to sharing these traits, all living creatures also share a common language. This means they can communicate without having to learn from each other.
After Darwin’s discovery about the common language shared by all living creatures, he had this to say: “The more we study animals and plants, the more difficult it becomes to believe that each species was independently created by a divine being.”
Source: Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
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