Sometime ago I did an in-depth study into the question: Does God exist? I did not do it because of weak knees on the issue, although as a Biology mayor in college from a reputable University (Washington University in St. Louis), I had plenty of seeds planted by my professors as to implausibility of God's existence. The first book I read was Godless by Ann Coulter. Ann is like the character Cathy in Steinbeck's "East of Eden", except she's rational and noble. Ann led me to Fred Hoyle.
"Evolution from Space" by Fred Hoyle is midsize rather difficult book to read. Mr. Hoyle is a world-renowned Mathematician and Astronomer
Here is a demonstration of the problem.
Statistics:
1) Flip a coin and you get heads 50% of the time. Flip 3 coins and you get heads, heads, heads 1 in 8 times or 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2.
2) Roll a dice and you get the number one, 16.66% of the time. Roll 3 dice and you get one, one, one in 1 in 216 times or 1/6 * 1/6 * 1/6.
3) To create a protein (cytochrome C) randomly as Darwin would suggest requires the correct positioning of 104 amino acids. There are 20 available amino acids. Hence, the odds of correctly making cytochrome C in humans is 20 to the 105th power. Or 20 with 105 zeros. This is equivalent to zero chance.
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