God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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Science, in attempting to calculate the age of the
whole universe, has placed the figure at 50 billion
years. Even such a prolonged duration is too short
for the necessary proteinous molecule to have come
into existence in a random fashion. ‘When one
applies the laws of chance to the probability of an
event occurring in Nature, such as the formation of
a single protein molecule from the elements, even if
we allow three billion years for the age of the earth
or more, there isn’t enough time for the event to
occur.
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There are several ways in which the age of the earth
may be calculated from the point in time at which it
solidified. The best of all these methods is based on
the physical changes in radioactive elements.
Because of the steady emission or decay of their
electric particles, they are gradually transformed
into radio-inactive elements, the transformation of
uranium into lead being of special interest to us. It
has been established that this rate of transformation
remains constant irrespective of extremely high
temperatures or intense pressures. In this way, we
can calculate for how long the process of uranium
disintegration has been at work beneath any given
