ompletely different and much larger unified cohesive body of work - the thirty-two volume Encyclopedia Britannica with its 192 million characters?

"Exactly! Over millions and millions of years of course."

"Of course," said the visitor.

War and Peace did not fall into place by accident, neither did its English translation. To create such a comprehensive masterpiece required intelligence, literary expertise, planning, and purposeful action. An author named Leo Tolstoy wrote that book. Encyclopedia Britannica did not evolve by minute random mistakes from War and Peace or any other work. That thirty-two volume set required intelligence, literary expertise, planning, and purposeful action too. Numerous authors and editors combined and coordinated their talents to create this distinctive series of books.

Now how about that "simple" bacteria? That three million nucleotide base form of life did not fall into place by accident any more than did the 2.8 million character War and Peace. To create such a comprehensive mast

Conclusion of The Language of Life

The fifth room was full of scribes both male and female. One very large male scribe wore a black leather jacket with the initials "D.M." stitched on the back. "Stands for dominant male," said the guide before the visitor could ask.

The dominate male picked up a copy of War and Peace and carried it out of the room. Each of the female scribes picked up a copy and followed the dominant male out of the room. About an equal number of male scribes with "O.M." stitched on the back of their sweaters picked up a copy each. But instead of taking them out of the room, they simply dumped their books into a trash barrel. Over this container was placed a sign which read "Dead End."

The guide informed the visitor "O.M." are initials for "Other Males." Responding to the visitor's questions, the guide answered, "We call these gentlemen our Dead End scribes. Many good-error mutations of War and Peace wind up in the Dead End dumpster, but the majority make it to the next room.

The visitor discovered the dominant male and the female scribes had carried their copies to a sixth room. Here in the sixth room sat a wimpish little scribe with big thick glasses. He actually read the books placed on his table. But practically every one he picked up, he discarded on the floor, saying in a peevish little voice, "I don't like that one." On rare occasions he would say, "That one is okay." And he would pass it on to the next room.

The guide explained, "We call the sixth room scribe, Mr. Discrimination. Only a handful of beneficial-error-mutated copies of War and Peace get by his review."

More surprises were ahead. An enormous pool of water stood directly in front of the single table in the seventh room. The sign beside the water reads: Genetic Pool. Every once in a while, a scribe would come into the room and finding a book on the table, he would unceremoniously push the copy off into the genetic pool.

The visitor looked on in amazement. "Is that all there is to it? Those few positive-error copies of War and Peace that make it past the first six rooms are just pushed off into the drink?"

That's about it," responded the guide without expression. "Although on occasion, one of those copies is taken to another room where the whole process starts over."

"You mean scribes copy the new War and Peace with its "beneficial mistake"; they are reviewed for errors; and one out of five hundred thousand has an additional error. Then, on the average, one out of a thousand of those with additional errors will have a second beneficial mistake. Most of those with a second "good error" are eaten, burned, drown, or otherwise destroyed.

"Of the few two-good-error copies left, some hit end of the line snags, others are shunned because of bias against innovations, and still others are drowned in large gene pools. And I suppose an incremental number of those two-good-error War and Peace copies will make it through all the hazards and wind up in yet another room to be copied by scribes."

"You got it! And the whole thing repeats itself again and again," said the guide slapping his knee with enthusiasm.

The visitor thought aloud, "We have a two-good-error War and Peace followed by a three-good-error War and Peace, then a four-good-error copy, etc, etc. But where do all these accumulated mistakes lead us?"

"To other books!" cried the guide. By adding a letter here, substituting one there, changing one punctuation mark to another, sometimes repeating words, sentences, or even entire paragraphs or deleting them, we create new books. We believe that the thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica evolved just that way from a copy of War and Peace. Gradually and incrementally, one book arose from another."

"Oh," said the skeptical visitor. "How many characters - letters and punctuation marks - are in the Encyclopedia Britannica?"

"Around 192 million," stated the guide.

"So you think that a series of mistakes, letter by letter, semicolon by semicolon transformed a unified cohesive body of work, namely War and Peace with its 2.8 million characters into a completely different and much larger unified cohesive body of work - the thirty-two volume Encyclopedia Britannica with its 192 million characters?

"Exactly! Over millions and millions of years of course."

"Of course," said the visitor.

War and Peace did not fall into place by accident, neither did its English translation. To create such a comprehensive masterpiece required intelligence, literary expertise, planning, and purposeful action. An author named Leo Tolstoy wrote that book. Encyclopedia Britannica did not evolve by minute random mistakes from War and Peace or any other work. That thirty-two volume set required intelligence, literary expertise, planning, and purposeful action too. Numerous authors and editors combined and coordinated their talents to create this distinctive series of books.

Now how about that "simple" bacteria? That three million nucleotide base form of life did not fall into place by accident any more than did the 2.8 million character War and Peace. To create such a comprehensive maste

ered the dominant male and the female scribes had carried their copies to a sixth room. Here in the sixth room sat a wimpish little scribe with big thick glasses. He actually read the books placed on his table. But practically every one he picked up, he discarded on the floor, saying in a peevish little voice, "I don't like that one." On rare occasions he would say, "That one is okay." And he would pass it on to the next room.

The guide explained, "We call the sixth room scribe, Mr. Discrimination. Only a handful of beneficial-error-mutated copies of War and Peace get by his review."

More surprises were ahead. An enormous pool of water stood directly in front of the single table in the seventh room. The sign beside the water reads: Genetic Pool. Every once in a while, a scribe would come into the room and finding a book on the table, he would unceremoniously push the copy off into the genetic pool.

The visitor looked on in amazement. "Is that all there is to it? Those few positive-error copies of War and Peace that make it past the first six rooms are just pushed off into the drink?"

That's about it," responded the guide without expression. "Although on occasion, one of those copies is taken to another room where the whole process starts over."

"You mean scribes copy the new War and Peace with its "beneficial mistake"; they are reviewed for errors; and one out of five hundred thousand has an additional error. Then, on the average, one out of a thousand of those with additional errors will have a second beneficial mistake. Most of those with a second "good error" are eaten, burned, drown, or otherwise destroyed.

"Of the few two-good-error copies left, some hit end of the line snags, others are shunned because of bias against innovations, and still others are drowned in large gene pools. And I suppose an incremental number of those two-good-error War and Peace copies will make it through all the hazards and wind up in yet another room to be copied by scribes."

"You got it! And the whole thing repeats itself again and again," said the guide slapping his knee with enthusiasm.

The visitor thought aloud, "We have a two-good-error War and Peace followed by a three-good-error War and Peace, then a four-good-error copy, etc, etc. But where do all these accumulated mistakes lead us?"

"To other books!" cried the guide. By adding a letter here, substituting one there, changing one punctuation mark to another, sometimes repeating words, sentences, or even entire paragraphs or deleting them, we create new books. We believe that the thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica evolved just that way from a copy of War and Peace. Gradually and incrementally, one book arose from another."

"Oh," said the skeptical visitor. "How many characters - letters and punctuation marks - are in the Encyclopedia Britannica?"

"Around 192 million," stated the guide.

"So you think that a series of mistakes, letter by letter, semicolon by semicolon transformed a unified cohesive body of work, namely War and Peace with its 2.8 million characters into a completely different and much larger unified cohesive body of work - the thirty-two volume Encyclopedia Britannica with its 192 million characters?

"Exactly! Over millions and millions of years of course."

"Of course," said the visitor.

War and Peace did not fall into place by accident, neither did its English translation. To create such a comprehensive masterpiece required intelligence, literary expertise, planning, and purposeful action. An author named Leo Tolstoy wrote that book. Encyclopedia Britannica did not evolve by minute random mistakes from War and Peace or any other work. That thirty-two volume set required intelligence, literary expertise, planning, and purposeful action too. Numerous authors and editors combined and coordinated their talents to create this distinctive series of books.

Now how about that "simple" bacteria? That three million nucleotide base form of life did not fall into place by accident any more than did the 2.8 million character War and Peace. To create such a comprehensive mast

ake it past the first six rooms are just pushed off into the drink?"

That's about it," responded the guide without expression. "Although on occasion, one of those copies is taken to another room where the whole process starts over."

"You mean scribes copy the new War and Peace with its "beneficial mistake"; they are reviewed for errors; and one out of five hundred thousand has an additional error. Then, on the average, one out of a thousand of those with additional errors will have a second beneficial mistake. Most of those with a second "good error" are eaten, burned, drown, or otherwise destroyed.

"Of the few two-good-error copies left, some hit end of the line snags, others are shunned because of bias against innovations, and still others are drowned in large gene pools. And I suppose an incremental number of those two-good-error War and Peace copies will make it through all the hazards and wind up in yet another room to be copied by scribes."

"You got it! And the whole thing repeats itself again and again," said the guide slapping his knee with enthusiasm.

The visitor thought aloud, "We have a two-good-error War and Peace followed by a three-good-error War and Peace, then a four-good-error copy, etc, etc. But where do all these accumulated mistakes lead us?"

"To other books!" cried the guide. By adding a letter here, substituting one there, changing one punctuation mark to another, sometimes repeating words, sentences, or even entire paragraphs or deleting them, we create new books. We believe that the thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica evolved just that way from a copy of War and Peace. Gradually and incrementally, one book arose from another."

"Oh," said the skeptical visitor. "How many characters - letters and punctuation marks - are in the Encyclopedia Britannica?"

"Around 192 million," stated the guide.

"So you think that a series of mistakes, letter by letter, semicolon by semicolon transformed a unified cohesive body of work, namely War and Peace with its 2.8 million characters into a completely different and much larger unified cohesive body of work - the thirty-two volume Encyclopedia Britannica with its 192 million characters?

"Exactly! Over millions and millions of years of course."

"Of course," said the visitor.

War and Peace did not fall into place by accident, neither did its English translation. To create such a comprehensive masterpiece required intelligence, literary expertise, planning, and purposeful action. An author named Leo Tolstoy wrote that book. Encyclopedia Britannica did not evolve by minute random mistakes from War and Peace or any other work. That thirty-two volume set required intelligence, literary expertise, planning, and purposeful action too. Numerous authors and editors combined and coordinated their talents to create this distinctive series of books.

Now how about that "simple" bacteria? That three million nucleotide base form of life did not fall into place by accident any more than did the 2.8 million character War and Peace. To create such a comprehensive mast

said the guide slapping his knee with enthusiasm.

The visitor thought aloud, "We have a two-good-error War and Peace followed by a three-good-error War and Peace, then a four-good-error copy, etc, etc. But where do all these accumulated mistakes lead us?"

"To other books!" cried the guide. By adding a letter here, substituting one there, changing one punctuation mark to another, sometimes repeating words, sentences, or even entire paragraphs or deleting them, we create new books. We believe that the thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica evolved just that way from a copy of War and Peace. Gradually and incrementally, one book arose from another."

"Oh," said the skeptical visitor. "How many characters - letters and punctuation marks - are in the Encyclopedia Britannica?"

"Around 192 million," stated the guide.

"So you think that a series of mistakes, letter by letter, semicolon by semicolon transformed a unified cohesive body of work, namely War and Peace with its 2.8 million characters into a completely different and much larger unified cohesive body of work - the thirty-two volume Encyclopedia Britannica with its 192 million characters?

"Exactly! Over millions and millions of years of course."

"Of course," said the visitor.

War and Peace did not fall into place by accident, neither did its English translation. To create such a comprehensive masterpiece required intelligence, literary expertise, planning, and purposeful action. An author named Leo Tolstoy wrote that book. Encyclopedia Britannica did not evolve by minute random mistakes from War and Peace or any other work. That thirty-two volume set required intelligence, literary expertise, planning, and purposeful action too. Numerous authors and editors combined and coordinated their talents to create this distinctive series of books.

Now how about that "simple" bacteria? That three million nucleotide base form of life did not fall into place by accident any more than did the 2.8 million character War and Peace. To create such a comprehensive mast

ompletely different and much larger unified cohesive body of work - the thirty-two volume Encyclopedia Britannica with its 192 million characters?

"Exactly! Over millions and millions of years of course."

"Of course," said the visitor.

War and Peace did not fall into place by accident, neither did its English translation. To create such a comprehensive masterpiece required intelligence, literary expertise, planning, and purposeful action. An author named Leo Tolstoy wrote that book. Encyclopedia Britannica did not evolve by minute random mistakes from War and Peace or any other work. That thirty-two volume set required intelligence, literary expertise, planning, and purposeful action too. Numerous authors and editors combined and coordinated their talents to create this distinctive series of books.

Now how about that "simple" bacteria? That three million nucleotide base form of life did not fall into place by accident any more than did the 2.8 million character War and Peace. To create such a comprehensive masterpiece required extraordinary intelligence, knowledge of chemistry far greater than our own, plus planning, and purposeful action.

Mankind did not evolve from a bacteria any more than did the Encyclopedia Britannica evolve from War and Peace. Something or Someone with a high degree of intelligence and chemical knowledge designed and constructed the bacteria to be what it is. By the same token, Something or Someone with a high degree of intelligence and chemical knowledge designed and constructed humans to be what they are.