God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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beings. Now, one molecule is of no use.
Hundreds of millions of
identical
ones are
necessary. We would need much greater
figures to “explain”, the appearance of a series
of similar molecules, the improbability
increasing considerably, as we have seen for
each new molecule (compound probability),
and for each series of identical throws.
If the probability of appearance of a living cell
could be expressed mathematically the
preceding figures would seem negligible. The
problem was deliberately simplified in order
to increase the probabilities (p. 35).
Events which, even when we admit very
numerous experiments, reactions, or shakings
per second, need an infinitely longer time
than the estimated duration of the earth in
order to have one chance, on an average, to
manifest themselves can, it would seem, be
considered as impossible in the human sense
(p. 36).
It is totally impossible to account scientifically
for all phenomena pertaining to life, its
