"Precisely correct! But that is the problem, not the
solution. Of course each of the four players is certain to
receive 13 cards. But which 13 cards? The order of the cards in
the deck has been arranged by a random process--the shuffling of
the cards. It is impossible to predict, before the cards are
dealt, which 13 cards a particular player will receive. He is
aboslutely certain to receive 13 cards of some kind, but the
chances of his receiving any particular set of 13 cars is 1 in 4
x 10^21. If the cards could be dealt once every second, it would
require about 10,000 times 20 billion years before a player would
have an even probability of recieving a pre-ordained set of 13
cards. That would require a long card game indeed! Now suppose
that this had to happen one million times to the same player!
"If a monkey was supplied with a typewriter and paper and
was allowed to tap the keys of the typewriter as many times as
there are letters in this sentence, it is certain that that many
letters would appear on the page. There would only be one chance
in 26^176, however, that the monkey would have typed the preceding
sentence without any spelling errors. The number 26^176 is so
huge it exceeds the number of particles in the trillions times
trillions times trillinon times trillions times trillions times
trillions times trillions of universes! An evolutionary origin
of life, however, would be enourmously less likely than that.
People like Kitcher live in a dream world where evolution is God-
-nothing is impossible with evolution. The incredible
improbability, or actually the impossibility, of evolution by
strictly naturalistic mechanistic processes has been documented
by numerous creationsits, anti-evolutionists, neutral
investigators, and frustrated evolutionists."~Duane T. Gish,
Creation Scientists Answer their Critics, (El Cajon: Institute
for Creation Research, 1993), p. 222-223
Lets apply this reasoning to the folding of proteins. If it requires God to
perform unlikely events in our world, then it would follow that God is
involved in the folding of each and every protein. Nature performs this task
in a couple of seconds.
"It has been estimated that a supercomputer applying plausible rules for
protein folding would need 10^127 years to find the final folded form for even
a very short sequence consisting of just 100 amino acids. In fact, in 1993
Aviezri S. Fraenkel of the University of Pennsylvania showed that the
mathematical formulation of the protein-folding problem is computationally
'hard' in the same way that the traveling-salesman problem is hard. How does
nature do it?"~John L. Casti, "Confronting Science's Logical Limits,"
Scientific American, Oct. 1996, pp. 102-105, p. 103
While God is most assuredly the designer and sustainer of our universe, is it
really necessary for Him personally to fold each protein in each and every
cell on the planet? Is this an example of a miracle? How do we tell?
glenn
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