Ever stop and think what it takes to make up one so called simple living cell? The hypothetical simple cell would need a vast number of internal parts. At least 239 protein molecules, each containing 445 amino acids, all of which are made up of 10 to 20 atoms.
Of the hundreds of different amino acids, only 20 are used in proteins, and they cannot simply float around randomly. All 445 of them must be lined up single file, in perfect sequential order, for the protein to function. For a single cell to spring to life, 445 amino acids would have to accidentally line up perfectly, not once, but 239 times to form 239 proteins to spontaneously become a living cell. The so called simple cell contain as much data as all the individual letters in the worlds largest library. That’s about a trillion bits of information.
Even though the odds of all this occurring accidently is utterly impossible. Darwin pointed out that no supernatural designer was needed, since natural selection could account for any known from of life.
Lets just assume a designer was not needed. Applying the laws of probability to the spontaneous generation of a single living cell through this illustration.
Suppose you number ten pennies from 1 to 10 and place all ten of them in your pocket. When you reach into your pocket and randomly select a penny, the odds of picking a specific penny are 1 in 10. But the odds of pulling the pennies out in sequential order, replacing each penny after it is selected, are 1 in 10 billion. That means you could try to randomly select 10 pennies in proper sequence 10 billion times before getting it right. Compare that to the odds of the simple cell getting organized by itself, and the impossibility of the task becomes pretty obvious.
A Swiss scientist Charles Guye calculated the possibility of even on protein(not 239) with the average amino-acid chain getting lined up in the proper sequence as 1 in 10321
Just an idea of what an outrageous number that is, the total number of fundamental particles in the entire universe is 10134 that means there aren’t enough fundamental particle in the universe to illustrate the odds of even a single protein molecule coming together. Dr. Guye also claimed that the time required to run the optional combinations would be 10234 billion years. Remember we are only talking about one protein, not the required 239. If you take the same principles of probability and apply them to a single cell, the odds become 1 in 10137,915.28
Its no wonder biologist Edwin Conkin said, “The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop”. Sir Fred Hoyle of Cambridge university said, “The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein”. So its pretty clear we just didn’t happen by chance. Yet there is the religion that expects us to believe that life sprang from a mud puddle, with just the right chemicals mixed in.
