The Notion That Not Only The Biopolymer

It Is Ironic That The Scientific Facts Throw Darwin Out, But Leave William Paley, A Figure Of Fun To The Scientific World For More Than A Century, Still In The Tournament With A Chance Of Being The Ultimate Winner... Indeed, Such A Theory Is So Obvious That One Wonders Why It Is Not Widely Accepted As Being Self-evident. The Reasons Are Psychological Rather Than Scientific.

Imagine 1050 Blind Persons Each With A Scrambled Rubik's Cube, And Try To Conceive Of The Chance Of Them All Simultaneously Arriving At The Solved Form. You Then Have A Chance Of Arriving By Random Shuffling, Of Just One Of The Many Biopolymers On Which Life Depends. The Notion That Not Only The Biopolymers But The Operating Program Of A Living Cell Could Be Arrived At By Chance In A Primordial Organic Soup Here On The Earth Is Evidently Nonsense Of A High Order.

Life Cannot Have Had A Random Beginning. ... The Trouble Is That There Are About Two Thousand Enzymes, And The Chance Of Obtaining Them All In A Random Trial Is Only One Part In 10 To The 40,000 Power, An Outrageously Small Probability That Could Not Be Faced Even If The Whole Universe Consisted Of Organic Soup.

Well, We Now Have Such A Photograph... Has Any New Idea Been Let Loose? It Certainly Has. You Will Have Noticed How Suddenly Everybody Has Become Seriously Concerned To Protect The Natural Environment... It Seems To Me More Than A Coincidence That This Awareness Should Have Happened At Exactly The Moment Man Took His First Step Into Space.

It Is A Mistake To Imagine That Potentially Great Men Are Rare. It Is The Conditions That Permit The Promise Of Greatness To Be Fulfilled That Are Rare. What Is So Difficult To Achieve Is The Cultural Background That Permits Potential Greatness To Be Converted Into Actual Greatness.