[From The Deer Stand]

I always wondered.... if we evolved from apes how come there are still apes?

[killermosquito]

I always wondered...if science said everything happened by accident why can’t they recreate it on purpose?

I’m not a mathematician so tell me if the following is accurate:

Suppose we were trying to randomly create a string of text, for example the word “evolution.” 10 characters, 26 letters in the alphabet so there are 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible combinations of characters. We are only able to randomly create a string 1000 times per second. If we did not achieve the word “evolution” until the very last possible letter combination it would take 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 seconds or 1,666,666,666,666,670,000,000 minutes or 27,777,777,777,777,800,000 hours or 1,157,407,407,407,410,000 days or 3,168,808,781,402,890 years for this miracle to occur (or more than 3 quadrillion years).

I suggest that it is a whole lot more difficult to create life from non-life in the amount of time that it has been suggested that the universe exists.