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the chance that after its passage a fully
The number of pos-
assembled 747, ready to fly, will be
sible Rubik's cube
found standing there? So small as to be configurations is
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negligible, even if a tornado were to 4 x 10 .
blow through enough junkyards to fill (10 billion,
the whole Universe. 99 billion!)

At all events, anyone with even a nod-
ding acquaintance with a Rubik's cube
will concede the near-impossibility of a
solution being obtained by a blind per-
son moving the cubic faces at random.
Now imagine 1,050 blind persons each
with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try
to conceive of the chance of them all si-
multaneously arriving at the solved
form. You then have the chance of ar-
riving by random shuffling of just one of the many bio-polymers on
which life depends. The notion that not only the bio-polymers, but the op-
erating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a pri-
mordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high or-
der. Life must plainly be a cosmic phenomenon. 100
If there were a basic principle of matter which somehow drove organic
systems toward life, its existence should easily be demonstrable in the lab-
oratory. One could, for instance, take a swimming bath to represent the
primordial soup. Fill it with any chemicals of a non-biological nature you
please. Pump any gases over it, or through it, you please, and shine any
kind of radiation on it that takes your fancy. Let the experiment proceed
for a year and see how many of those 2,000 enzymes [proteins produced
by living cells] have appeared in the bath.

I will give the answer, and so save [you] the time and trouble and expense
of actually doing the experiment. You will find nothing at all, except pos-
sibly for a tarry sludge composed of amino acids and other simple organ-
ic chemicals. How can I be so confident of this statement? Well, if it were
otherwise, the experiment would long since have been done and would
be well-known and famous throughout the world. The cost of it would be
trivial compared to the cost of landing a man on the Moon... 101