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.”
But since I disagree with their premise, I won't defend them.
Maybe an analogy will help you?
Consider that every gambling machine is regulated & inspected to be random & honest.
And yet every machine has it's own odds and those always favor the house, otherwise the house would go out of business.
Well, in the gambling machine called "evolution", God is the House, and God always wins, in the long run.
Can you dig it?
;-)
Do you not believe that God could create the universe in 6 days?
I don't think the term "intelligent design" remotely begins to describe the greatness of God's Master Plan & creative efforts.
In that sense, "intelligent design" is almost an insult, grossly understated, lacking any serious appreciation for what we see in God's Universe today.
Sure, absolutely He could.
But He left physical evidence suggesting otherwise, and I don't think we have to reject the evidence to accept that God created it.
Do you?
“But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?
- Darwin
Can you dig it?
[[In that sense, “intelligent design” is almost an insult, grossly understated]]
Not when describing an omnipotent God- God’s intelligent design far surpasses man’s but make no mistake, it’s intelligently designed in an omniscient manner- The term intelligent Design simply infers that which is not random chance aND has purpose and design built in- God is the ultimate Intelligent Designer- His design is evident everywhere- even in the smallest components of life- where it is clear that His supernatural designs superseded natural laws
>>If so, why not just make it?
Because it’s important for you, and others, to be able to discern the truth with your own eyes and free mind - and then be able to articulate it without regurgitating somebody else’s authoritarian propaganda on the subject.
Demonstrating a proficient awareness of the related vocabulary and foundational concepts is part of that process.
“Truth is great And will prevail”
—Thomas Jefferson
>>produce a more complex finished product — “complexify”, get it?
I get that you seem to be more focused on admiring your own complexified self-engineered vociferitude than demonstrating an ability to explain why a natural process like photosynthesis can and does manufacture increased complexity without violating the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
So do you not believe in miracles? Miracles do not leave physical evidence.
The universe in which light from celestial bodies 13.5 billion light years away is visible, today, here on Earth - 13.5 billion years later.
That Universe?
Yes that universe just like the Word of God says. The earth was made first then our galaxy the billions of other galaxies were made on the 4th day.
>>the billions of other galaxies were made on the 4th day.
Including the ones 13.5 billion light years away.
Uhuh.
What is a light year?
Do you believe any part of the bible?
I believe you can’t/won’t answer what a Light Year is; or what happens to the relative rate of T as E approaches infinity.
"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspiredmenDUNGEONMASTERS, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;...that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. ""I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=truth%20is%20great%20and%20will%20prevail%20if%20left%20to%20herself
Off the top of my head it’s 5,878,499,000,000 miles.
I’m ONLY interested in having this “debate” with Christians though.
The Temple of Y.E.D.'s fallible and uninspired opinions and modes of thinking don't get to determine who is a Christian.
You also don't get to wield state-established powers to confine men like Galileo to home imprisonment for life - or murder men like Giordano Bruno because they contradict your ERRORS.
That tells me all I needed to know. Have a nice day.
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