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his to ry of man kind by ran dom ly pos si ble struc tures that could re sult
strik ing the keys of a type writ er." 191 from a sim ple ran dom com bi na tion of
Yet rath er than ac cept the true ex pla - ami no ac ids in an evap o rat ing pri mor -
na tion—cre a tion—they pre fer di al pond, it is mind-bog gling to be -
lieve that life could have orig i nat ed
this ut ter im pos si bil i -
in this way. It is
ty.
more plau si ble
Many ev o lu -
that a Great
tion ists ad mit
Builder with a
this. The ev o -
mas ter plan
lu tion ist sci -
would be re quired for
en tist Harold 194
such a task.
Bloom, for in -
The three-di men sion al struc -
stance, says, "The
ture of a pro tein
spon ta ne ous for ma -
tion of a pol y pep tide of the size of PROKARYOTIC CELLS
the small est known pro teins seems
—See Origin of the Bacteria.)
be yond all prob a bil i ty." 192
Evolutionists claim that mo lec u -
lar ev o lu tion took a very long time
PROTOAVIS
and that this time frame made the
In point ing to Archaeopteryx as an
im pos si ble pos si ble. But no mat ter
in ter me di ate form, ev o lu tion ists be -
how much time is al lowed, it is still
gan with the as sump tion that it was
im pos si ble for ami no ac ids to ran -
the ear li est bird-like crea ture on
dom ly give rise to pro teins. In his
Earth. However, the dis cov ery of
book Essentials of Earth History, the
cer tain far old er bird fos sils dis -
American ge ol o gist William Stokes
placed Archaeopteryx from its perch
ad mits that "it would not oc cur dur -
as the an ces tor of birds. In ad di tion,
ing bil lions of years on bil lions of
these crea tures were flaw less birds
plan ets, each cov ered by a blan ket of
with none of the sup posed rep til i an
con cen trat ed wa tery so lu tion of the
fea tures at trib ut ed to Archaeopteryx.
nec es sa ry ami no ac ids."
The most sig nif i cant of them was
Professor of Chemistry Perry
Protoavis, es ti mat ed at 225 mil lion
Reeves de scribes what all this ac tu al -
years old. The fos sil, whose ex is -
ly means: 193
tence was an nounced in a pa per in
When one ex am ines the vast num ber of
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