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things, one well-known evolutionist, American geologist William R. Stokes
John Maynard Smith, addressed the fol- admits this fact in his book entitled, Es-
lowing question to evolutionists: sentials of Earth-History: “that it would
not occur during billions of years on bil-
Here one of the key questions has to do
with altruism: How is it that natural se- lions of planets each covered by a blan-
lection can favor patterns of behavior ket of concentrated watery solution of
that apparently do not favor the survival the necessary amino acids.” 14
of the individual? 13 An article in the January, 1999 editi-
on of Science News explains that there is
Amino acids still no explanation as to how proteins
are formed:
Amino acids are molecules, the buil-
ding blocks of the proteins that make up . . . no one has ever satisfactorily explai-
living cells. More than 200 different ned how the widely distributed ingredi-
ents linked up into proteins. Presumed
amino acids are found in nature, but of
conditions of primordial Earth would ha-
these, only 20 kinds make up the protein
ve driven the amino acids toward lonely
in living creatures. Certain of these 20 15
isolation.
amino acids combine with one another,
forming a series of chemical bonds that
create proteins with various functions
and characteristics.
There are basic proteins, composed
of about 50 amino acids, and other pro-
teins are composed of thousands of ami-
no acids. If a single amino acid is lac-
king in the structure of a protein—if it
should alter its position, or if a single
amino was added to the chain—that pro-
tein would be reduced to a useless series
of molecules. For this reason, every
amino acid must be in exactly the right
place, in exactly the right order.
The theory of evolution claims that
life came to be as a matter of chance—

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