Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 500
A GAME OF CHESS OR A GAME OF CHANCE!. Professor Edwin Conklin, an eminent biologist at. Princeton University, puts it like this: "The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged. Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop. '8. Dr Winchester, another great biologist, admitted that: ‘. . . after many years of study and work in the fields of science, my faith in God, rather than being shaken, has become much stronger and acquired a firmer foundation than heretofore. Science brings about an insight into the majesty and omnipotence of the Supreme Being which grows stronger with each new discovery. " 59. The time scale required for evolution, if haphazard blind brainless chance were to be its creator, is so enormously large that it boggles the mind of even the most expert mathematician. No human expression can describe it, no human mind can grasp the immensity of the figures involved. . As mentioned earlier, Allen estimated the time needed for the chance synthesis of the complex proteins to be 10 248 years. The entire span of evolution however requires a much larger slice of time than the mere production of proteins to which Allen refers. . To help the the unfamiliar reader visualize this mathematical concept, we would like to remind him that the total age of the universe since the Big Bang is only eighteen to twenty billion years. No name has been ever invented or will ever be invented to denote the astronomical figure. Professor Frank Allen has worked out. Perhaps eternity is the nearest name to it. 475