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 Darwins 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 doesnt 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 Kennedys 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.
Heres 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, Darwins 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 Meyers 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, Id 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.
“What are the odds of you existing?”
The odds of an exact replica of Kaslan existing are astronomically high (like abiogenesis).
The odds of Kaslin’s parents having a child? Pretty good.
So what is your point?
>>>>What is TIME?
>>The thing that keeps everything from happening at once.
Oh. How does it do that?
Man you are old! ;-)
” It seems impossible based on your everyday experiences, “
When Einstein was a little boy, his father gave him a compass.
As a kid, he was fascinated by this mysterious force that acted through metal and glass.
As an adult he reflected on his childhood observations ....
Gravity and light were also as mysterious. It was just that he grew up with these and they were familiar to him.
It is correct that life didn’t just spring from nothing. The flaw in the Town Hall argument though, is that its reasoning is confused.
Evolutionary theory has never stated that life springs from nothing. The idea of Spontaneous Generation began with the ancient Greeks, and was later adapted by Christianity.
Jerry Newcombes not only unaware of the history of the subject he writes about, hes also unaware of the fundamental tenet of science, which is empiricism. You can propose any idea you want, but unless you can back it up with data and facts, and then have that data replicated by other scientists in the field, it is absolutely meaningless. Just like in a court of law, hearsay evidence is not allowed.
Evolution is supported by radiometric dating and the science of stratigraphy. In order for evolution to be discredited, these scientific principles would have to be proven wrong. It only takes one instance, but so far that hasnt happened.
Newcombes also overlooked the fact, that since God created everything in the universe, He also created the laws of physics, which include radiometric dating and stratigraphy. So to deny evolution is to deny the existence of God.
Scientific version: Time arises from the phenomenon of Quantum Entanglement, and its fundamental job is to oversee that no event bypasses the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
https://www.quora.com/How-does-time-work-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xijhqU8r2A
Like 1/2xINF-1 impossible.
I have a problem with evolution and I like the clockmaker theory.
Mainly because they’ve found no traces of ancient civilizations pre 12000 bc. Mankind didn’t just spontaneously evolve at around 10000 bc. Mankind was genetically created
>> My observation is that the god of atheists & evolutionists is TIME <<
Maybe true for male atheists. But I’ve heard that female atheists have a god whose name is “Yes.”
“So to deny evolution is to deny the existence of God.”
Presuming that what is observed is due to evolution. Otherwise, no.
They snuck over the event horizon.
Panspermia theory just creates more questions because there is now the question of how those aliens came around, and more.
The calculation of odds assumes the creation of life in its present form. The first life would have been very much simpler. Further, Prior to life, biochemistry produces complex products, and the products themselves interact in complex ways. For example, complex organic molecules are observed to form in the conditions that exist in space, and it is possible that they played a role in the formation of the first life.
Airplanes did not start out with the assembly of a modern Boeing 777.
A friend of mine always says that the evolutionists have a divine trinity just as Christians do. Theirs is:
Father Time
Mother Nature
Lady Luck
According to the Standard Models of Cosmology concerning the Big Bang. Space and Time itself came into creation by the singularity. There is no "before" the Big Bang within the property of Time in our natural universe. And there is no "outside" within our spacial system.
This is very counter-intuitive of course. It is hard to get a mental image in one's mind to how this works. It can really only be understood by abstract conceptions and mathematical formulas and such.
But an image that has helped me is to image the universe like an expanding balloon, with the galaxies being buttons on the balloon being pushed apart. The surface of the balloon would be our three dimensional space in this analogy. The galaxies are getting further apart as the balloon expands. And the balloon keeps expanding endlessly from its apparent beginning as a single point that seemingly came out of nowhere. Of course this image has the balloon within a 3 space already, and we are missing a dimension, so its not a perfect analogy.
What is outside the universe is outside of space and time. It is not in any way subject to the space and time of our universe. It is like the relationship between an author and a story the author and the fictional world the author creates in a book. The characters in the book can travel to any time or place within their universe, but they will not find the author as a phenomena in that universe...and yet the author in another sense is found everywhere in their universe.
Time is a derivative function of state change that progresses relative to E within the inertial frame(s) in which it is observed.
So simple a 2nd grader could understand it without being relatively special.
What is TIME?
Apparently it is the “secret sauce” of evolution.
I always ask these two questions when confronting those who don’t believe in a Creator.
What was the first thing?
How did it (somthing) come from nothing?
It is impossible for anything to come from nothing. The first bit of energy or matter had to be created by a eternal and intelligent Creator. To think otherwise is anti-science.
>>Apparently it is the secret sauce of evolution.
Apparently you dont have a better description/understanding of Time than that.
Amen. Excellent article.
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