God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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proteins having evolved randomly, by
chance.
Now, just imagine, if life as we know it had come
into existence by a stroke of chance, how much time
would it have taken? To quote the biophysicist,
Frank Allen:
Proteins are the essential constituents of all
living cells, and they consist of the five
elements, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen
and sulphur, with possibly 40,000 atoms in
the ponderous molecule. As there are 92
chemical elements in Nature, all distributed at
random, the chance that these five elements
may come together to form the molecule, the
quantity of matter that must be continually
shaken up, and the length of time necessary to
finish the task, can all be calculated. A Swiss
mathematician
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, Charles Eugene Guye, has
made the computation and finds that the odds
against such an occurrence are 10160 to 1, or
only one chance in 10160, that is 10 multiplied
by itself 160 times, a number far too large to
be expressed in words. The amount of matter
