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The probability of life originating at random is absurd. It is sensible to believe that the physics on which life depends are in every respect deliberate.

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DO THE FACTS SUPPORT CHANCE OR DESIGN?

'The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less can we believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.'

Dr Richard Dawkins (Department of Zoology, Oxford University, UK), 'The necessity of Darwinism'. New Scientist, vol. 94, 15 April 1982, p. 130.

'And in Man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.'

Dr Isaac Asimov (biochemist; was a Professor at Boston University School of Medicine; internationally known author), 'In the game of energy and thermodynamics you can't even break even'. Smithsonian Institute Journal, June 1970, p. 10.

'Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make the random concept absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favourable properties of physics on which life depends are in every respect deliberate.' .... 'It is therefore almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect in a valid way the higher intelligences to our left, even to the extreme idealized limit of God.'

Sir Fred Hoyle (English astronomer, Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University) and Chandra Wickramasinghe (Professor of Astronomy and Applied Mathematics at University College, Cardiff), 'Convergence to God', in Evolution from Space, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1981, pp. 141 and 144.

'I have said for years that speculations about the origin of life lead to no useful purpose as even the simplest living system is far too complex to be understood in terms of the extremely primitive chemistry scientists have used in their attempts to explain the unexplainable that happened billions of years ago. God cannot be explained away by such naive thoughts.'

Ernst Chain (world famous biochemist), as quoted by R. W. Clark, in The Life of Ernst Chain: Penicillin andBeyond, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1985, p. 148.

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