God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
~ 170 ~
development and progressive evolution, and
that, unless the foundations of modern science
are overthrown, they are unexplainable.
We are faced by a hiatus in our knowledge.
There is a gap between living and non-living
matter which we have not been able to bridge
(p. 36).
The laws of chance cannot take into account
or explain the fact that the properties of a cell
are born out of the coordination of complexity
and not out of the chaotic complexity of a
mixture of gases. This transmissible,
hereditary, continuous coordination entirely
escapes our laws of chance.
Rate fluctuations do not explain qualitative
facts, they only enable us to conceive that they
are not impossible qualitatively (p. 37).
Such calculations show that at least 1400 million
years have elapsed since the process of rock-
solidification took place. These estimates are based
on a study of those rocks which are known to be the
oldest on our planet. J.W. Sullivan puts the earth’s
