Posted on 05/05/2012 8:46:18 AM PDT by cleghornboy
If I am, it started long before any primordial ooze on this planet.
“The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one out of 10 to the power of 40,000…It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.” (Sir Fredrick Hoyle, professor of astronomy, Cambridge University).
Keyword: If
You’re missing his point. This brilliant scientist is saying that it is statistically impossible to say that the origins of life were random. And IF you acknowledge this (which every sane person must), we must look to a Creator.
“The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages has been a persistent and nagging problem for evolution.” (Dr. Stephen J. Gould, Evolution Now, p. 140, Professor at Harvard University in Boston).
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