Creationists and evolutionists alike will agree that this proposition is silly. Random typing at a keyboard is not likely to ever produce significantly intelligent prose any more than random biological mutations are likely to ever produce healthy, intelligent creatures. But this is where creationists often underestimate the power of certain components that are critical to the evolutionary process. When the press continues to cover people who separate belief from science, you ll always publish articles that are as bad as this one. Belief is not provable except by faith.
Science is provable.
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