The Odds of Evolution Occurring by Chance

The "odds" of evolution occurring by chance are so infinitely small that it is a miracle in itself that such things are still taught as if they were a "fact" of science.  

The following excerpts are from: "A Closer Look at the Evidence" by Richard and Tina Kleiss.  They illustrate why evolution is (for all practical purposes) a Dying, if not Dead, theory.

"At one time living cells were considered no more complex than empty ping pong balls.  As biochemists have learned more about the complexity of life, it has become increasingly apparent that thousands of specific and complex chemicals are required for any form of life to survive.

Evolutionist Harold Morowitz estimated the probability for chance formation of even the simplest form of living organism at 1/10^340,000,000.  By comparison only 10²⁰ grains of sand could fit within a cubic mile and 10 billion times more (10³⁰) would fit inside the entire earth.  So, the probability of forming a simple cell by chance processes is infinitely less likely than having a blind person select one specifically marked grain of sand out of an entire earth filled with sand.

There is nowhere near enough time nor matter in the entire universe for even the simplest cell to have formed by chance combinations.  Even if all the correct chemicals somehow came together in the correct place, you still wouldn't have life.  This is exactly the situation every time a living organism dies.  Immediately after death, all the right chemicals exist, in the right proportions, and in the right place -- yet the creature is still dead!

Five billion years is nowhere near long enough for evolution to have taken place.  In reality, all of eternity would not provide enough time for random processes to form the enormous complexity of life."

"Page" July 17th

"The simplest conceivable form of life (eg. bacteria) contains at least 600 different protein molecules.  Each of these molecules performs specific functions by fitting into other molecules shaped in exact three-dimensional spatial arrangements.  These proteins work like a key fitting into a lock -- only a specifically shaped protein will fit.  Yet there are multiple trillions of possible combinations of protein molecules and shapes. How could the exactly required shape find the exactly correct corresponding protein in order to perform the required cellular function?

"The mathematical probability that the precisely designed molecules needed for the 'simplest' bacteria could form by chance arrangement of amino acids (these are the chemicals that link up to form proteins) is far less than 1 in 10⁴⁵⁰. Most scientists acknowledge that any possibility less than one in 10⁵⁰ is considered an impossibility.  One wonders why this 'impossibility' is being taught as a 'fact of science' to millions of school children each year."

"Page" August 7th
Emphasis in Original

Further references provided in book.

See also The Facts of Life