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.”
The first law of physics dictates that our universe should not exist... Where did all this matter come... no answer other than it just was...
Non believers have faith... just not in a creator....
I enjoy asking the questions that since living things are 80%-90% water, then how did water evolve?
Heck; I want to KNOW them; not IGNORE them!
Where are they listed??
Yep, the multiverse. The new theory that anything is possible in trillions of parallel universes... No proof of course... Just faith it is true.
Which is more likely, a creator existing outside our realm... or... the multiverse springing from nothing?
How can one then ignore the FACT that DEvolution must ALSO happen?
Evolution says one tiny little change is somehow advantageous to a lifeform and it is retained, showing up in later generations.
Then; logically, there MUST be innumerable little doodads and hickeys attached to creatures today that will NOT make it to the next generation.
Where are they??
If Evolutionists REALLY believed; then WHY do they go to DOCTORS at the same rate as Creationists? Shouldn't they WELCOME being a Guinea pig for CHANCE?
I'm glad you asked that question!
Hold this thought.
Life will give you a test latter.
The statement says infinity is not an option.
“You have information in a symbolic representation and a reading frame code. But beyond this, a formalization of semantic closure would need to be in place prior to the first cell.”
Reading frame code is clear, but the rest if it...?
But could you say the other parts in English. Eg what is “formalization of semantic closure”?
Those who choose Faith acknowledge that not EVERYTHING can be reasoned, reproduced, or rationalized.
Look up the Grand Coulee
Lol
Wouldn’t that be more actually described as a Skreech?
12 Owls would be a Hoot.
Which evolved first?
The penis or the vagina?
Or...
...both at the same time?
“So nat’ralists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller fleas to bite ‘em.
And so proceeds Ad infinitum.”
Good point. I always say ‘why did it stop?’ re evolution. If humans evolved from apes why are there still apes?And,lastly,if the Big Bang theory is true WHAT went bang and where was it if there was nothing before it?
I would avoid the “If humans evolved from apes why are there still apes?”, It’s not a argument you can win.
As for your other points?
Take a few minutes, 92 minutes, and start with this.
The Privileged Planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmIc42oRjm8
Not quite.
I was quite the Evolutionist at the great age of 18.
High school graduate, going to tech school in the Air Force, ready to tackle the World!
I knew the Einstein equation: E=mc2.
I'd heard all about the Big Bang in school.
I wuz SMART!!
But I wasn't prepared for the question put to me one crisp fall evening in Denver; so many years ago...
It was a dark and (no; not that one) starry night that midnight hour I was walking back to Lowry after leaving my girlfriends home.
We'd watched the Miracle of Lourdes on latenight tv. Now she was a Catholic girl and LOVED the movie, while I was an agnostic who silently thought, "Hooey!"
But I couldn't put the thoughts out of my mind as I returned to base. My 'great learning' was getting tested and failing. When I finally thought (or said!) something like, "Well; what about the BB theory and E=mc2 and all that??
And the Universe appeared!
(I knew the equation could be rewritten as m=E/c2 )
So the the Question came:
And Light was.
“Just how MANY times did this occur before the created Life decided, “This dyin’ is getting mighty old. I’m gonna try for REPRODUCTION next time around.””
I see your point, but ...
I’d say it’s not life if it’s not reproducing.
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