ningless without the translation machinery, but the specification for this machinery is itself coded in the DNA. Thus without the mach!inery the information is meaningless, but without the coded information the machinery can not be produced!"(Walton,1977). It is far more difficult to believe that this is random evolution than to suppose it is the result of an intelligent creator.Turning to the fossil record as proof of evolution, and proof of the antiquity of the earth, there are also problems. Evolution demands that it's subscribers believe fossils were sediment encased over millions of years, but research shows the record is evidence of the rapid death and burial of animal and plant life. For example, many fossils show by the details of their soft, fleshy portions (such as jellyfish) that they were buried before they could decay. Many fossil animals show the contorted positions indicative of violent and rapid mass burial. Further, many fossils have been found that cut across two or more layers of sedimentary rock. Finally, most sediment is laid down by water. (Gould,1977). All of these facts are more in keeping with what would occur in a worldwide, catastrophic flood. Looking at the gaps between species, as evidenced by the fossil record, paleontology expert and former Dean of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago states that: We now have a quarter of a million fossil species but... we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time. This means that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information-what appeared to be a nice simple progression when relatively few data were available now appears to be much more complex and much less gradualistic. So Darwin's problem has not been alleviated in the last 120 years and we still have a record w...
