Posted on 06/15/2017 12:50:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
Zero times anything is zero. The odds of life just happening by chance are zero.
This universe just springing into being by chance is impossible. It takes a leap of blind faith to believe in evolution, unguided or guided. Of course, there are tiny changes within kinds. It seems to me usually when the evolutionists make their case, they point to these tiny changes.
The analogies to the improbability of evolution by a random process are endless.
A hurricane blows through a junkyard and assembles a fully functioning 747 jet.
Scrabble pieces are randomly spilled out on the board, and they spell out the Declaration of Independence word for word. (Source: Dr. Stephen Meyer, author of Darwin’s Doubt).
A monkey sits at a typewriter and types thousands of pages. He types out word for word, with no mistakes, the entire works of Shakespeare.
The odds against our universe, of the earth, of the creation, to have just come into being with no intelligent design behind the grand scheme are greater than all of these impossible scenarios.
Forget the works of Shakespeare. What are the odds of a monkey randomly typing away simply spelling the 9-letter word “evolution” by chance? That doesn’t sound too hard, does it?
Dr. Scott M. Huse, B.S., M.S., M.R.E., Th.D., Ph.D., who holds graduate degrees in computer science, geology, and theology, wrote a book about creation/evolution back in the early 1980s, The Collapse of Evolution. Huse has done extensive study on these questions of random probability. I had the privilege of interviewing him about it for Dr. D. James Kennedy’s television special, “The Case for Creation” (1988). It was a type of Scopes Trial in reverse---filmed on location in Tennessee, in the very courtroom where the 1925 monkey trial took place.
Later, Huse created a computer program to see what are the odds of a monkey typing the word “evolution”? He notes that the odds are 1 in 5.4 trillion, which statistically is the same thing as zero. Any casino that offered such horrible odds would lose customers quickly, because no one would ever win. Forgive my bluntness, but the suckers have to win something before they start losing big.
Here’s what Scott told me in an email: “The typical personal computer keyboard has 104 keys, most of which are not letters from the alphabet. However, if we ignore that fact and say the monkey can only hit keys that are letters of the alphabet, he has a one in twenty-six chance of hitting the correct letter each time.
“Of course, he has to hit them in the correct sequence as well: E then V then O, etc. Twenty-six to the power of nine (the number of letters in the word “evolution”) equals 5,429,503,678,976.
“So, the odds of him accidentally typing just the 9-letter word ‘evolution’ are about 1 in about 5.4 trillion …From a purely mathematical standpoint, the bewildering complexity of even the most basic organic molecules [which are much more complicated than a nine-letter word] completely rules out the possibility of life originating by mere chance.”
Take just one aspect of life---amino acids and protein cells. Dr. Stephen Meyer earned his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science at Cambridge University. In his New York Times bestselling book, Darwin’s Doubt (2013), Meyer points out that “the probability of attaining a correct sequence [of amino acids to build a protein molecule] by random search would roughly equal the probability of a blind spaceman finding a single marked atom by chance among all the atoms in the Milky Way galaxy---on its face clearly not a likely outcome.” (p. 183)
And this is just one aspect of life, the most basic building-block. In Meyer’s book, he cites the work of engineer-turned-molecular-biologist, Dr. Douglas Axe, who has since written the book, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed (2016).
In the interview I did with Scott Huse long ago, he noted, “The probability of life originating through mere random processes, as evolutionists contend, really honestly, is about zero…. If you consider probability statistics, it exposes the naiveté and the foolishness, really, of the evolutionary viewpoint.”
Dr. Charles Thaxton was another guest on that classic television special from 1988. He is a scientist who notes that life is so complex, the chances of it arising by mere chance is virtually impossible. Thaxton, now with the Discovery Institute, has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry, and a post-doctorate degree in molecular biology and a Harvard post-doctorate in the history and philosophy of science.
Thaxton notes, “I’d say in my years of study, the amazing thing is the utter complexity of living things….Most scientists would readily grant that however life happened, it did not happen by chance.”
The whole creation points to the Creator. Huse sums up the whole point: “Simply put, a watch has a watchmaker and we have a Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Amen.
The odds of evolution being random are tiny.
I used to argue this evolution thing quite a bit. I found out a couple of decades ago that the evolutionists don’t really “know” as much as I thought. I further realized, as this article hints at, that it takes more blind faith to believe in evolution creating life than it does to believe in a creator.
I then realized it was a bit like arguing politics with Nancy Pelosi. i.e. a waste of time.
I don’t really get involved any more, but I like how this article lays most of that out.
If there is no evolution, then why do we share the DNA of all the living creatures on the earth?
Actually, I don’t believe in evolution either, at least not the way the secular humaniss do. I think evolution might be part of it, but it’s like a jigsaw puzzle with so many pieces missing it’s impossible to imagine what the end result will be.
And I’ve also heard that for every favorable combination of amino acids, etc. that would ultimately lead to ‘creation’, there are many times that number that would serve to annihilate that favorable one. So, it’s even more unlikely that life could have been created ‘ex nihilo’; out of nothing.
I’d like to recommend a good movie dealing this topic... On Netflix
“Is Genesis History”
My observation is that the god of atheists & evolutionists is TIME.
Their statement of faith?
“Given enough TIME, everything is possible”
“The probability is very low you say? Well, just give it more TIME...”
Because all those creatures were created by the same entity.
Building blocks for living beings are similar for different creatures.
That doesn’t surprise me at all.
There’s actually a 2nd “god” in their pantheon: CHANCE. TIME and CHANCE are their dual deities.
>>My observation is that the god of atheists & evolutionists is TIME.
What is TIME?
“The odds of life just happening by chance are zero.”
Whether or not that’s true; it has nothing to do with evolution.
Darwin’s theory concerned the ‘origin of the species’ — i.e. diversification of lifeforms; not the origin of life itself. “Abiogenesis” is one theory on the origin of life itself. Evolution is a theory of how new species form — assuming that a life form already exists.
In all fairness, this is simply incorrect. It seems impossible based on your everyday experiences, but that’s because your everyday experience does not encompass processes that span millions or billions of years. So you have no frame of reference from which to analyze the situation. Just pointing out the logical fallacy.
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It’s almost like different lines were created at different times. Certainly, the exquisite artistry of even a mouse is miracle enough to prove the existence of a designer.
Too many think evolve and adapt are the same. There is always a zero point for everything, we just don’t know what it is.
I just saw that last week. Very interesting presentation, to say the least. Very well done.
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