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               account for this in terms of blind chance.  find themselves—having to maintain the
                  In a later section of the book he says:  impossible and deny an evident fact—
               “If a marble statue of the Virgin Mary  sometimes obliges them to propose such
               suddenly waved its hand at us we should  strained logic. Desperately striving to
               treat it as a miracle,” because according  deny the evidence of creation that they
               to Dawkins, “all our experience and  so plainly observe, evolutionists reveal
               knowledge tells us that marble doesn't  one important fact: The sole aim of all
               behave like that. . . . But if, by sheer co-  their efforts made on behalf of the theory
               incidence, all the molecules just happe-  of evolution is to deny the manifest exis-
               ned to move in the same direction at the  tence of God.
               same moment, the hand would move. If   As we have seen, such endeavors are
               they then all reversed direction at the sa-  always in vain. All scientific evidence
               me moment the hand would move back.  reveals the truth of creation, once again
               In this way it is possible for a marble  proving that God has created living
               statue to wave at us.”  58          things.
                  This difficulty in which evolutionists
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