Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 499
A GAME OF CHESS OR A GAME OF CHANCE! dissolution into chaos. The prevailing theme of the universe is one of increasing entropy. All the more wondrous, then, are the examples of order in nature. "5. There are many other scientists who having pondered over the issue of the origin of creation and of life in relation to time and chance, have drawn the inevitable conclusion that there has to be an Omniscient, Omnipotent,. Omnipresent Supreme Intelligence to design, organize and govern creative phenomena. Without Him, the beginning of creation and evolution of life are mathematically inconceivable. . Horgan in his article In the Beginning quotes Crick's observation: 'The origin of life appears to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which have had to be satisfied to get it going. ". But why ‘almost' one may ask, it is indeed a miracle!. Horgan goes on to say: 'Some scientists have argued that, given enough time, even apparently miraculous events become possible such as the spontaneous emergence of a single-cell organism from the random couplings of chemicals. ". But how many chances of random couplings would be needed for the creation of life is the very question which has been answered by Fred Hoyle, the renowned British astronomer, in the following words: “. . . such an occurrence is about as likely as the assemblage of a 747 by a tornado whirling through a junkyard. " 474