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groundless claim that there is proof of evolution in all areas and that
they possess several hypotheses accounting for the origin of life,
which is something that no expert on the subject could possibly con-
firm. This rosy picture painted by evolutionists very definitely fails to
reflect the true state of affairs. Each one of the hypotheses regarding

the origin of life is in the same quandary, and these alternatives all fail
to resolve the problem; they all merely pose the question in a different
form. One of these so-called alternatives in the Science and Creationism
is the "RNA World" hypothesis. Despite being at present one of the
most popular hypotheses amongst evolutionists, the RNA World the-
ory actually contains a great many difficulties, as we shall be seeing,
and is clearly a scenario which could never have taken place.

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In the book Science and Creationism, the RNA World hypothesis is
suggested as one of the alternative (and reasonable) explanations of
the origin of life. However, the RNA World hypothesis is at a loss to
account for the origin of life just like all the explanations put forth by
evolutionists.
The discovery in the 1970s that the gases originally existing in the
primeval Earth's atmosphere would have rendered amino-acid synthe-
sis impossible was a serious blow to the theory of molecular evolution.
Evolutionists then had to face the fact that the "primitive atmosphere ex-
periments" by Stanley Miller, Sydney Fox, Cyril Ponnamperuma, and
others were invalid. For this reason, in the 1980s the evolutionists tried
again. As a result, the RNA World hypothesis was advanced. This sce-
nario proposed that, not proteins, but rather the RNA molecules that
contained the information for proteins, were formed first.
According to this scenario, advanced by Harvard chemist Walter
Gilbert in 1986, inspired by the discovery of "ribozymes" by Thomas

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