It is you who keeps bringing faith and the bible into the discussion you and I are having. Search my posts, I have not tried to use either as evidence.

I have presented to you a fact, proteins cannot exist outside of a living cell.
I ask you for facts that show otherwise.
You come back at me and say you search for facts and I believe a book.
Gross misrepresentation just like the theory you hold to

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so how does fossils fit into the theory that the earth is just a few thousand years old?

It dosn't and I never said it did, again gross misrepresentation of my words.

The fossil record teaches me that life forms suddenly appear and the ones that go extinct suddenly dissappear.
The fossil record teaches me that every life form that has survived until our day has done so virtually unchanged.