NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD

Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 171 ~ 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