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sands and thousands of … appropriate events. Thus, miracles would be-
come the rule: events with an infinitesimal probability could not fail to oc-
cur... There is no law against daydreaming, but science must not in-
dulge in it. 437
Chance becomes a sort of providence, which, under the cover of athe-
ism, is not named but which is secretly worshiped. 438
Susumo Ohno is an American geneticist:
As far as I am concerned, the uniqueness of the immune system lies in its
ability to cope with all sorts of previously unexperienced contingencies,
thus giving an impression of having evolved in anticipation of future
needs. The Darwinian concept of evolution by natural selection does not
predict the development of a system that can cope with the future. 439

Prof. Ali Demirsoy is a biologist at Hacettepe University in Turkey
and specializes in zoogeography:
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 sci-
entific cause. We thus have to look into the first hypothesis. 440

Douglas Futuyma is professor of ecology and evo-
cy to chrome-C lution at the State University of New York:
Organisms either appeared on the earth fully
developed or they did not. If they did not,
they must have developed from pre-ex-
isting species by some process of mod-
ification. If they did appear in a ful-
ly developed state, they must in-
deed have been created by some
omnipotent intelligence. 441
San Francisco Chronicle:

What really astounds me is the ar-
chitecture of life.... The system is ex-
tremely complex. It's like it was de-
signed.... There's a huge intelligence
there. 442