God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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to be shaken together to produce a single
molecule of protein would be millions of
times greater than that in the whole universe.
For it to occur on the earth alone would
require many, almost endless billions (10243)
of years.
Proteins are made from long chains called
amino acids. The way those are put together
matters enormously. If in the wrong way, they
will not sustain life and may be poisons.
Professor J.B. Leathes (England) has
calculated that the links in the chain of quite a
simple protein could be put together in
millions of ways (1048). It is impossible for all
these chances to have coincided to build one
molecule of protein.
But proteins as chemicals are without life. It is
only when the mysterious life comes into
them that they live. Only a Infinite Mind, that
is God, could have foreseen that such a
molecule could be the abode of life, could
have constructed it, and made it live.
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