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                     with the Australian Academy of Science, describes how
                     the effects of time will be the exact oppo site of what
                     Darwinists expect:

                        Time is no help. Bio-mol e cu les out side a liv ing sys tem tend to
                        degrade with time, not build up. In most cases, a few days is
                        all they would last. Time decom pos es com plex sys tems. If a
                        large word (a pro tein) or even a par a graph is gen er at ed by
                        chance, time will oper ate to degrade it. The more time you
                        allow, the less chance there is that frag men ta ry sense will sur -
                        vive the chem i cal mael strom of mat ter.  14



                        Ceaseless Activity with in the Cell
                        A liv ing cell is a mar vel of Cre a tion that astounds all
                     sci en tists. Examined under an elec tron micro scope, the
                     cell can be seen to con tain activ i ty rem i nis cent of a bee -
                     hiv e's. In the same way that life in the hive goes on even
                     as hun dreds of bees die and new ones take their place,
                     mil lions of cells in the human body die every day, and
                     are again replaced by new ones. And bil lions of cells
                     work togeth er in har mo ny to keep the body alive.
                        Each of those 100 tril lion cells func tions like a walled
                     city. Power plants gen er ate the cell's ener gy. Factories
                     pro duce pro teins, vital units of chem i cal com merce.
                     Complex trans por ta tion sys tems guide spe cif ic chem i cals
                     from point to point with in the cell and beyond. Sentries
                     at the bar ri cades con trol the export and impor tant mar -
                     kets, and mon i tor the out side world for signs of dan ger.
                     Disciplined bio log i cal armies stand ready to grap ple with







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