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Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism

Davies, the well-known physicist and science
writer, makes an important comment on this matter:

Some scientists say, "Just throw energy at it, and it [life] will hap-
pen spontaneously." That is a little bit like saying: "Put a stick of
dynamite under the pile of bricks, and bang, you've got a house!" Of
course you won't have a house, you'll just have a mess. The diffi-
culty in trying to explain the origin of life is in accounting for how
the elaborate organizational structure of these complex molecules
came into existence spontaneously from a random input of energy.
How did these very specific complex molecules assemble them-
selves? 12
Actually, Davies' example contains the correct solution to the
problem of the origins of life. Is it reasonable to first suppose that a
given house was formed by an explosion, and then theorize as to
how it was possible? Or is it more reasonable to believe that the
house was the result of a superior creation and organization? The
answer is obvious.

Over the past 20 years, during which the complex details of
life have been understood, many scientists have rejected the myth
of chemical evolution and begun to give a new answer for the ori-
gins of life—the fact of Creation.

The Amazing Complexity of Life

The most important starting point that caused the fact of

Creation to be clearly known by everyone is the complexity
of life that could not even have been imagined in
Darwin's time. In his 1996 book Darwin's Black Box,
Michael Behe, a professor of biochemistry at

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