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same operation these amino acids became proteins, the proteins
formed cells, and through the continuation of this chain of random
occurrences, human beings finally came to be...
However, the claim that lifeless matter can coalesce to form life
has not been verified in any observation or experiment; it is an extra-
scientific claim. Every living cell comes into existence from the
division of another living cell. No one in the whole world, even in the
most advanced laboratory, has
succeeded in making a living cell
from non-living material, which
shows that the first cell was most
certainly created with conscious
intent.
Hinduism, which has found
masses of adherents for itself in
southern Asia with its complex rituals
and pagan doctrines, is also founded
on the belief that all living things
emerged from the oceans. This belief
is expounded in detail in the Rig Veda
The Hindu river goddess.
and the Atharva Veda scriptures
which illustrate Hindu doctrines with stories of legendary characters.
Hinduism rejects the idea of a Creator; according to its philosophy, the
whole of the universe evolved out of a huge, glob like mass of material
substance, "prakriti." Everything, animate and inanimate, evolved
from this primordial substance. At the end of each cosmic period all
things are dissolved into their original elements, into prakriti, after
which the whole evolutionary process begins again. 20 That is, the
universe is reformed from this primal lifeless matter.
One of the greatest impasses in the religion of Darwinism is the
question of how living things first came into being. Evolutionists
generally prefer to avoid this question because the most concrete

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