God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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rock by examining the lead formed from it. And
since uranium has existed beneath the layers of rock
on the earth’s surface right from the time of its
solidification, we can calculate from its
disintegration rate the exact point in time when the
rock solidified. In his book,
Human Destiny
, Le
Comte Du Nouy has made an excellent, detailed
analysis of this problem:
It is impossible because of the tremendous
complexity of the question to lay down the
basis for a calculation which would enable
one to establish the probability of the
spontaneous appearance of life on earth (p.
33).
The volume of the substance necessary for
such a probability to take place is beyond all
imagination. It would be that of a sphere with
a radius so great that light would take 1082
years to cover this distance. The volume is
incomparably greater than that of the whole
universe including the farthest galaxies,
whose light takes only 2x106 (two million)
years to reach us. In brief, we would have to
