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The answer to that I found written by the author who quotes it from another, who had quoted it from someone else as well. It's a lineage of quotes, but it is so succinct that I don't think it could be better said.
When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaenous generation. There is no third way. Spontaenous generation was disproved 100 years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose by spontaenous chance!
And just to throw out some numbers for those curious...
In order for DNA to spontaenously generate, it would need to be all "left-handed" amino acids. These occur naturally 50/50 "right-" and "left-handed." The probability of getting 10,000 amino acids that are "left-handed" and 100,000 nucleotides that are "right-handed" (in order to produce DNA for the first simple bacterium) is 1 chance in 10 to the 33,113 degree. Similar odds to winning 4700 state lotteries by purchasing one ticket for each lottery!
There are some 128 factors neccessary for a planet to sustain life. There 10 to the 22nd degree number of planets in the entire universe. The chance of another planet being able to sustain life is 1 chance in 10 to the 144th degree! And these are conservative estimates.
But my absolute favorite is a conversative probability for life to have evolved randomly. That number is 1 chance out of 10 to 99,999,999,879th degree!!!! That's a lot of zeros.
I think I just like scientific notation.
Microevolution within a species does, of course, occur as Darwin speculated. It's the macroevolution from species to species or even from spontaenous generation which does not.
~Bas
When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaenous generation. There is no third way. Spontaenous generation was disproved 100 years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose by spontaenous chance!
And just to throw out some numbers for those curious...
In order for DNA to spontaenously generate, it would need to be all "left-handed" amino acids. These occur naturally 50/50 "right-" and "left-handed." The probability of getting 10,000 amino acids that are "left-handed" and 100,000 nucleotides that are "right-handed" (in order to produce DNA for the first simple bacterium) is 1 chance in 10 to the 33,113 degree. Similar odds to winning 4700 state lotteries by purchasing one ticket for each lottery!
There are some 128 factors neccessary for a planet to sustain life. There 10 to the 22nd degree number of planets in the entire universe. The chance of another planet being able to sustain life is 1 chance in 10 to the 144th degree! And these are conservative estimates.
But my absolute favorite is a conversative probability for life to have evolved randomly. That number is 1 chance out of 10 to 99,999,999,879th degree!!!! That's a lot of zeros.
I think I just like scientific notation.
Microevolution within a species does, of course, occur as Darwin speculated. It's the macroevolution from species to species or even from spontaenous generation which does not.
~Bas
