Probability of God Not Existing

Is There God?

Friends, I am posting an interesting article written by Sadhu Vishwamurtidas. I read it several years ago and have preserved it.

"Suppose you are walking along a sandy beach. Your foot stumbles over something. You bend and pick it up. It's a rough, irregular rock. Without much thought, you would probably throw it back. But, suppose you are the first human being to be walking on a distant planet orbiting another star at the far end of our galaxy Again, you stumble over something. You pick it up. It's a digital watch!


The discovery would be the most exciting event in human history because the watch could not conceivably have been created by some fluke of nature, like the rock back on earth. The digital watch is deigned intricately. We know that such a design can only be achieved through deliberate and purposeful manipulation of metals and minerals, by intelligent beings.


This analogy is known as Argument for Design, first advanced by natural theologist, William Paley (1743-1805) to demonstrate the existence of God as the creator of our beautiful and orderly universe and its meticulous governing laws. The glorious and majestic structure of the large-scale universe, the dynamics of planetary orbits around the sun and the sun's orbit around the centre of the galaxy are also examples of exquisite, purposeful design. The "Big Bang" explosion, which many say created the universe, is another example. Explosions are chaotic affairs. The Big Bang, however, was as harmonious and as co-ordinated as a world-class orchestra. What are mathematical probabilities of such an explosion occurring by chance? One thousand and sixty to one against.


Roger Penrose of Oxford Unirsity draws an analogy to this exceedingly improbable event. Suppose you place a one-foot wide target at the extreme end of the universe, say 15 billion light away. That's some 1,500 million, million, million miles away. Then, you take a random aim from the earth with a revolver specially loaded with bullets which are able to traverse that distance, fire and hit the bullseye! That is how precisely co-ordinated the Big Bang explosion was.


But the most fabulous proof of God's handiwork lies not in the galaxies or the stars, but our own selves. Life, it turns out and above all, human life, is an almost impossible occurrence. The basic building block of life is known as DNA. The miracle seems to lie not just in its amazing intricacy but also in its ability to self-replicate in ingenious combinations and fold and unfold only at the right moment.


The big question is, how did the complex DNA molecule come to exists? Evolutionists, for want of another idea, have pressed a theory of chance. It goes like this: by fortuitous coincidence, there came to exist on earth an ocean of primeval "organic soup" which contained the raw building materials of amino acids, vital ingredients of DNA. By pure chance again, over a period of one billion years, these enzymes, maybe with a little help from the sun's ultraviolet rays and lightning from the atmosphere, bumped and rushed against each other a sufficient number of times to combine and form new chemicals. Then, again by fluke, every single one of these billions of chance interactions conspired positively rather than negatively to create the famed DNA molecule.


Is evolutionary theory even remotely credible even if we stretch our imagination and fantasies to their limit? Fred Hoyle, one of the most eminent scientists of our age, and his colleague Chandra Wickramsinghe shake their heads in disagreement. "The trouble is," says Hoyle, "the chance of obtaining the required set of enzymes for even the simplest living cell was one in 10 raised to the power of 40,000, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup."

Hoyle compared the random emergence of even the simplest cell to the likelihood that "a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein." Hoyle also compared the chance of obtaining even a single functioning protein by chance combination of amino acids to a solar system full of blind men solving Rubik's Cube simultaneously


The theory of evolution is at best speculative armchair philosophy. From the glorious myriad of spectacular sights and colours of the present day through to the lingering sounds and echoes of a beautiful cosmic' symphony played during the earliest moments of creation, we are incessantly forced to bare witness to the compelling and veritable evidence of a masterful and powerful Conscious Creator.


For those who are able to integrate both head and heart, the existence of God is not merely an idea or a belief. It is a wonderful, observable fact."