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                    To illustrate the impossibility of Darwinist scientists’ claim that
                life is the product of coincidence, just think of a huge warehouse
                filled with various electronic devices, circuitry, cables and wiring.
                What if we wait for these various parts to assemble themselves into
                a computer? How long, do you think, would it take for those parts
                to start fitting themselves together as the result of a “coincidence”?

                How probable is it? Independent parts have no knowledge of what
                kind of structure they will form when they are put together. Of
                course, they have no idea of their basic purpose—to produce a func-
                tioning computer. However long you wait, this illusionary scenario
                will remain impossible to achieve.
                    No one doubts that some conscious being’s intervention is re-
                quired for these components to assemble themselves into some kind
                of design. In such a situation, the effects of coincidence would do no
                more than to upset whatever order already exists. If it’s irrational to
                dwell on the likelihood of mechanical parts coming together into

                even a single computer as a result of uncontrolled effects, it’s even
                more highly irrational to suggest that countless living creatures pos-
                sessing complex systems, whose every organ is composed of scores
                of essential parts, could be the product of coincidence.
                    Michael J. Behe, a famous professor of biochemistry, expressed
                his astonishment to colleagues who see coincidence as the law of the
                                   order and the diversity that we encounter:

                                   Chance is of course chance, but law in this con-
                                   text we can see as Darwinian evolution.
                                   Although we conclude that some features of
                                   the cell have been designed, many may have
                                   arisen gradually through mutation or natural
                                   selection. Only if we rule out chance and law
                                   can we move on to conclude that a feature was
                Michael Behe
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