452 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



hungry fish or other enemies. If he can securely fasten 

 himself to a fish or some moving structure as a ship, for 

 instance, he can ride around with plenty of food at hand 

 and in comfort and safety for ever more. We must re- 

 member that this barnacle attached to some object is 

 simply a colony of cells like any other plant or animal ; 

 and that the cells that made up his limbs and eyes and 

 who were occupied with the strenuous work of locomo- 

 tion and seeing, can now quit this work and ride in their 

 little house in comfort and safety. How can environment, 

 such as the climate or the water, cause or direct these 

 actions and structures of the barnacle as claimed by some 

 evolutionists? It is simply absurd and unthinkable. When 

 the cells in the fish like barnacles make a sucker-like ap- 

 paratus with which to effect a quick attachment to the 

 fish should an opportunity arise, they must necessarily 

 know what they are about as it is a difficult task not only 

 to make the instrument with which to effect the attach- 

 ment, but it is also a difficult task to approach and attach 

 themselves to a fish. It could not come about by any ac- 

 cident and chance any more than a stone could jump and 

 ride a wild horse by chance. 



The acts of the cell whether in a barnacle, oyster, plant 

 or animal show the same intelligence everywhere. They 

 direct the actions and destinies of all individuals, just as 

 man directs the actions and destinies of all his structures, 

 such as submarines, battleships, etc. The cells direct the 

 animals in their search for food ; they direct the birds in 

 their nest-building, and in their migration south upon the 

 approach of winter; they direct the bee in his flight for 

 honey, and the ant in his social economy ; they direct 

 insectivorous plants in their capture of insects and man 

 in his civilization. The seed from the wild parsnip, 

 which in its wild stage is tough and wiry, will in a few 



