Those who persist in their denial of God, preferring instead to account for the universe (and you) by an appeal to the combination of matter + chance + time, may want to reconsider. Continue reading . . .

Those who persist in their denial of God, preferring instead to account for the universe (and you) by an appeal to the combination of matter + chance + time, may want to reconsider. Here is how Andrew Wilson put it:

“Life as we know it requires proteins, and proteins are formed by combining twenty different amino acids in the right order. A simple protein might have 100 amino acids in a chain, which means that the likelihood of assembling a protein correctly by blind chance is around 1 in 10 [with 130 0’s to follow], or smaller than the odds of winning the lottery eighteen times in a row. And that’s just one protein. When we remember that life s we know it requires hundreds of thousands of proteins, we quickly become amazed by the fact that we exist at all” (If God, Then What? Wondering Aloud About Truth, Origins & Redemption, IVP, 2012, p. 73).