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AnAgnostic Father
Writes His Son
Life simply cannot come from non-life.
– Fred Hoyle
In order for a single cell to appear by chance
(indeed, the smallest living cell known to mankind)
it would take 10, to the 119,841st power, years.
In other words, if you took an A4 sheet of paper
and wrote 1 and then wrote zeros after it,
you would fill up the entire known universe
with paper before ever finishing the number.
2
According to Emile Borel
3
‘any cosmic level event
with a probability of less than 1 out of 10,
to the 50th power, will not happen.’ One might
conclude then, that this is far more fantastic
than simply believing in a ‘God creator’.
2 According to Dr. James Coppedge of the Center for Probability Research in Biology in California
3 French scientist and expert in the area of probability