God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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age at two thousand million years—a moderate
estimate by his own account. When a period of
trillions and trillions of years would be required for
a single non-living proteinous molecule to develop
in a purely random way, we have to ask ourselves
how more than ten lakh species of animals with
fully developed bodies, and more than two lakh
species of plants could have originated upon the
surface of the earth within the relatively short
period of two thousand million years.
And how was it that innumerable members of each
species reproduced themselves and became
widespread throughout the land and the oceans? Is
it really conceivable that within such a short span of
time, a superior creature like man could have
evolved from inferior living organisms, and all just
by the merest chance?
The theory of evolution is based upon a certain
incidence
of
chance
mutations—accidental
variations—among the different species. But even
supposing rare mutations conferring a 1%
advantage did occassionally occur, just how rapidly
could they be accumulated in a species? Patan, in
