"When it comes to the origin of life on this earth, there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation [evolution]. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved 100 years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion: that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose spontaneously, by chance"[emphasis added].
 
These troubling words were written by Dr. George Wald, who won the 1967 Nobel Prize for Science (qtd. in Biblical Creationism 46). Evolutionary theory tells us that at some point millions or billions of years ago, non-living matter happened by chance to form itself into living, single-celled organisms. Over millions of years, these organisms mutated repeatedly, again by chance, to form the various different species of animals we see today. There are several variations of the details, but this is the general story taught as fact in most of our schools. Yet, if a prominent scientist admits he chooses to believe a theory that was disproved a century ago, is it fact or is it faith?
 
For evolution to be true, certain things are required. First, the universe has to have existed for millions or even billions of years in order for the gradual evolutionary process to develop all current animal species and man. Secondly, because the process takes so many millions of years, every successive mutation from one species to a new species has to be an improvement over the previous one and capable of surviving till the next mutation. Thirdly, it is required that chance be capable of building the complex organisms and systems we find today with reasonable probability.