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50 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

Prof. Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe is a professor of

applied mathematics and astronomy at Cardiff University:
... troops of monkeys thundering away at random on typewriters could
not produce the works of Shakespeare, for the practical reason that the
whole observable universe is not large enough to contain the necessary
monkey hordes, the necessary typewriters, and certainly the waste paper
baskets required for the deposition of wrong attempts. The same is true of
living material... One to a number with 1040.000 noughts after it... is big
enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no
primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the begin-
nings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product
of purposeful intelligence. 102
Prof. Malcolm Dixon, a British biochemist, at the University of
Cambridge:
Enzyme systems are doing every minute what battalions of full-time
chemists cannot. . Can anyone seriously imagine that naturally occurring
enzymes realized themselves, along with hundreds of specific friends, by
chance? Enzymes and enzyme systems, like the genetic mechanisms
whence they originate, are masterpieces of sophistication. Further re-
search reveals ever finer details of design. 103

Prof. Michael Pitman is the Chief Scientist of Australia:
There are perhaps, 10 80 atoms in the universe, and 10 17 seconds have
elapsed since the alleged 'Big Bang.' More than 2,000 independent en-
zymes are necessary for life. The overall probability of building any one
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of these polypeptides can hardly be greater than one in 10 . The chance
of getting them all by a random trial is one in 10 40000 , an outrageously
small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe con-
sisted of organic soup. 104
Prof. Ali Demirsoy is a biologist at Hacettepe University:
In essence, the probability of the formation of a cytochrome-C sequence is
as likely as zero. That is, if life requires a certain sequence, it can be said
that this has a probability likely to be realized once in the whole universe.
Otherwise some metaphysical powers beyond our definition must have
acted in its formation. To accept the latter is not appropriate for the scien-
tific cause. We thus have to look into the first hypothesis. 105