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* The transition from asexual reproduction to sexual reproduction: male reproductive organs are incredibly complex, and serve no purpose unless female reproductive organs (which are equally, if not more, complex) already exist.  Therefore the sexes could not have evolved in a step-wise fashion, because neither set of reproductive organs would serve any purpose unless the other set already existed.
 
* The transition from asexual reproduction to sexual reproduction: male reproductive organs are incredibly complex, and serve no purpose unless female reproductive organs (which are equally, if not more, complex) already exist.  Therefore the sexes could not have evolved in a step-wise fashion, because neither set of reproductive organs would serve any purpose unless the other set already existed.
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For the above reasons, creationists conclude that there is ''insufficient evidence'' to support the conclusion of common ancestry.  They further conclude that [[baraminology]] provides a much more meaningful way of studying the [[origin of life]].
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For the above reasons, creationists conclude that there is ''insufficient evidence'' to support the conclusion of common ancestry.  They further conclude that [[baraminology]] provides a much more meaningful way of studying the [[origin of life]], because it allows for the possibility that ''some'' forms of life are related, but without the rather extraordinary presumption that ''all'' forms of life are related.
    
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