It Is Notoriously Difficult To

A Knowledge Of The True Age Of The Earth And Of The Fossil Record Makes It Impossible For Any Balanced Intellect To Believe In The Literal Truth Of Every Part Of The Bible In The Way That Fundamentalists Do.

It Now Seems Certain That The Amino Acid Sequence Of Any Protein Is Determined By The Sequence Of Bases In Some Region Of A Particular Nucleic Acid Molecule.

It Seems Likely That Most If Not All The Genetic Information In Any Organism Is Carried By Nucleic Acid - Usually By Dna, Although Certain Small Viruses Use Rna As Their Genetic Material.

An Honest Man, Armed With All The Knowledge Available To Us Now, Could Only State That In Some Sense, The Origin Of Life Appears At The Moment To Be Almost A Miracle, So Many Are The Conditions Which Would Have Had To Have Been Satisfied To Get It Going.

It Is Not Easy To Convey, Unless One Has Experienced It, The Dramatic Feeling Of Sudden Enlightenment That Floods The Mind When The Right Idea Finally Clinches Into Place.