Could life evolve randomly from inorganic matter? Not according to mathematicians.
In the last 30 years a number of prominent scientists have attempted to calculate the odds that a free-living,
single-celled organism, such as a bacterium, might result by the chance combining of pre-existent building blocks.
Harold Morowitz calculated the odds as one chance in 10**100,000,000,000. Sir Fred Hoyle calculated the odds
of only the proteins of an amoebae arising by chance as one chance in 10**40,000.
...the odds calculated by Morowitz and Hoyle are staggering. The odds led Fred Hoyle to state that the probability
of spontaneous generation 'is about the same as the probability that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard could
assemble a Boeing 747 from the contents therein.' Mathematicians tell us that any event with an improbability
greater than one chance in 10**50 is in the realm of metaphysics -- i.e. a miracle.1
Harold Marowitz, an atheist physicist, created mathematical models by imagining broths of living bacteria that were
superheated until all the complex chemicals were broken down into basic building blocks. After cooling the
mixtures, Marowitz used physics calculations to conclude that the odds of a single bacterium reassembling by
chance is one in 10**100,000,000,000. 2 Wow! How can I grasp such a large statistic? Well, it's more likely that I
would win the state lottery every week for a million years by purchasing just one ticket each week.
It is amazing to me that people who don't accept that men evolved from a one-celled creature are labeled as
morons by those evangelical evolutionists. The one question I would pose to those people is: if you were accused
of a major crime that would put you away for life - would you want to be convicted on evidence as flimsy as that
offered up for the evolution of mankind.
