Page 170 - Confessions of the Evolutionists

168 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

Prof. Fred Hoyle, a British astronomer and a mathematician at

Cambridge University:
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is
so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that
the favourable properties of physics on which life depends are in every re-
spect deliberate. 423
Rather than accept that fantastically small probability of life having arisen
through the blind forces of nature, it seemed better to suppose that the
origin of life was a deliberate intellectual act. By "better." I mean less like-
ly to be wrong. 424
David M. Raup:
It is certainly true that one would be most unlikely to develop a function-
ing flying insect, reptile, or bird by a chance collection of changes. Some
sort of guidance is necessary. 425

Prof. Cemal Yıldırım:
According to some critics, equating evolution with natural selection alone
is like expecting a cat or a pigeon sat at a typewriter keyboard to be able
to write Shakespeare's Hamlet or Goethe's Faust by tapping the keys for
a million years. When we examine even the simplest life form, howev-
er, we cannot ignore the fact that a sublime intelligence has played an
active role in it. 426

It is far from being convincing to attribute this order in living things,
which seems to have a particular purpose, to chance or coincidence. 427

Niles Eldredge is an evolutionist paleontologist at the American
Museum of Natural History:
Indeed, the only competing explanation for the order we all see in the bi-
ological world is the notion of Special Creation. 428
Hoimar Von Ditfurth is a German professor of neurology and psy-
chiatry and a well-known evolutionist science writer:
These two polymers [egg white and nucleic acids] have been constructed in
such a complex manner and, as if that were not enough, their structures ex-
hibit such a high level of individuality that to imagine these came to that
level by acquiring wealth solely as the result of chance goes far beyond
being even an astronomically and inconceivably small possibility. 429
The statistical impossibility of the living structures in question emerging
as the result of chance alone is a rather current example of the present-day