God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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them out in sequence from 1 to 10, putting
each coin back in your pocket after each draw.
Your chance of drawing No. 1 is 1 to 10. Your
chance of drawing 1 and 2 in succession 1 in
100. Your chance of drawing 1, 2 and 3 in
succession would be one in a thousand. Your
chance of drawing 1, 2, 3 and 4 in succession
would be one in 10,000 and so on, until your
chance of drawing from No. 1 to No. 10 in
succession would reach the unbelievable
figure of one chance in 10 billion. The object in
dealing with so simple a problem is to show
how enormously figures multiply against
chance.
Sir Fred Hoyle similarly dismisses the notion that
life could have started by random processes:
Imagine a blindfolded person trying to
solve the Rubik cube. The chance against
achieving perfect colour matching is
about 50,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1.
These odds are roughly the same as those
against just one of our body’s 200,000
