Wonders of Creation

Chance

As biochemists have learned more about the complexity of life, it

has become increasingly apparent that thousands of specific and

complex chemicals are required for any form of life to survive.

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The mathematical probability that the precisely designed molecules

needed for the 'simplest' bacteria could form by chance arrangement

of amino acids (these are the chemicals that link up to form proteins)

is far less than 1 in 10 to the 450th power. Scientists say any chance beyond 1 in 10 to the 50th power only, very small compared to the other number, is realistically, zero.

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The simplest conceivable form of life ( bacteria) contains at least

600 different protein molecules. There are trillions of possible combinations of protein molecules and shapes. These proteins work like a key fitting into a lock only a specifically shaped protein will fit. 

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Even if these impossibilities happened in succession. Five billion years is nowhere near long enough for evolution to have taken place. In reality, all of eternity would not provide enough time for random processes to form the enormous complexity of life.