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level of development of science. Indeed, looking at those extraordinary
individual features in the formations of a single protein carrying out bio-
logical functions, it appears impossible to explain a large number of
atoms combining together, all in the correct and requisite sequence, at
the right time and moment and with the right electrical and mechanical
features, all in terms of chance. 430

No matter how large the universe may be, chance giving rise to the birth
of protein and nucleic acid is [an] impossibility that... 431

It is of course possible to account for the story of the birth of the world in
all its details, and the emergence of the complex structure of the building
blocks of living organisms in particular, with the possibility of a planned
course being followed and the direct intervention of a supernatural
power. In fact, we can ascribe the conditions on Earth, and ask why sub-
sequent developments occurred in such an astonishing way as to meet the
requirements of life, as if this had been foreseen beforehand, only to the
intention to create life from one end of the world to the other of a
Creator existing beyond nature, omnipotent. 432
The question posed in a mocking tone of voice by one ever-present celebri-
ty during a debate on the origin of life constitutes a well-known example
on this subject: "How long would a human being's 1,000 trillion atoms
have to be mixed up for a Volkswagen to emerge by chance?" Another
variation of the same question is "How long would 100 monkeys have to sit
randomly tapping the keys of a typewriter until they produced a single one
of Shakespeare's sonnets?" Such objections are really astonishing. 433

The life span of the Earth would be insufficient for cytochrome-C (or
any other enzyme currently in existence) to be manufactured once again
in exactly that form out of coincidences. 434
It is more reasonable seeming to think that the development of animate
and inanimate nature is the work of a single moment, a flash of cre-
ation... 435
Attempting to produce a conclusion on the basis that life is the work of
a miracle may more reasonable in the current state of affairs. 436
Pierre-Paul Grassé is a French biologist and former president of
the French Academy of Sciences:
The opportune appearance of mutations permitting animals and plants to
meet their needs seems hard to believe. Yet the Darwinian theory is even
more demanding: A single plant, a single animal would require thou-