| Quotes on Evolution vs.
Creation Wistar Institute, in 1966
- the leading mathematicians in the century met with some
evolutionary biologists and confronted them with the fact that
according to mathematical statistics, the probabilities of a cell or
a protein molecule coming into existence were nil. They even
constructed a model of a large computer and tried to figure out the
possibilities of a cell ever happening. The result was zero
possibility!
Dr. Murray Eden, of M. I. T.
“It is our contention that if random is given a crucial
interpretation from a probabilistic point of view, the randomness
postulate is highly implausible and an adequate scientific theory of
evolution must await the discovery of new natural laws – physical,
physico-chemical and biological.”
One scientist
“The cell is as complicated as New York City. It is more complex
than anything known to man.”
Sir James Gray, from Cambridge University
“A bacterium is far more complex than any inanimate system known to
man. There is not a laboratory in the world which can compete with
the biochemical activity of the smallest living organism. One cell
is more complicated than the largest computer that man has ever
made.”
National Geographic In an article on the cell, pointed out:
“Each cell is a world brimming with as many as two hundred trillion
tiny groups of atoms called molecules.” - Most of these are
protein molecules. And protein itself is the most complex substance
known to man.
Dr. James Kennedy
“That is, the idea of a cell ever forming by chance is so impossible
that for it to ever happen, we are going to have to discover
entirely new natural laws of physics, chemistry and biology in order
to be able to explain it.”
Dr. Edmund Wilson of Columbia University
“As early as 1855, Virchow positively maintained the universality of
cell division, contending that every cell is the offspring of a
preexisting parent cell. Today this conclusion rests on a foundation
so firm that we are justified in regarding it as a universal law of
development. The study of the cell has on the whole, seemed to widen
the enormous gap that separates the lowest form of life from the
inorganic world.”
A. H. Oparin
“Proof, in the sense in which one thinks of it in Chemistry and
Physics, is not attainable in the problem of Primordial Biogenesis.”
P. Lipmann
“I am afraid what I have to say will be just as much natural
philosophy as necessarily most discussions on the origin of life
need be at present.”
Professor Edwin Conklin
“The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to
the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an
explosion in a printing shop.”
Dr. James Coppedge, director of the Center for Probability
Research in Biology in California
- applied laws of probability of a single cell, protein, and gene
coming into existence by chance - computed a world including
the earth’s crust and entire array of elements were available. He
then had all the amino acids combine at 1.5 trillion times faster
than they do in nature. In computing the probabilities, he found
that a cell would take 10,119,841 years, a single protein molecule
10,262 years.
R. C. Wysong:
“a one-celled bacterium, e. coli, is estimated to contain the
equivalent of 100 million pages of Encyclopedia Britannica.
Expressed in information in science jargon, this would be the same
as 1012 bits of information. In comparison, the total writings from
classical Greek Civilization is only 109 bits, and the largest
libraries in the world - The British Museum, Oxford Bodleian
Library, New York Public Library, Harvard Widenier Library, and the
Moscow Lenin Library - have about 10 million volumes or 1012 bits.”
Dr. Sidney Fox, who is the reputed creator of life in a test
tube:
"Newspapers will print anything. What have people like Stanley
Miller and Sidney Fox done? They have taken a number of Amino Acids,
of which proteins are made and they have exposed them to all sorts
of things – to electric sparks, enormous heat – and have succeeded
in getting a few (like 12) amino acids to bond together. The
smallest living organism must have 400 amino acids bound together to
be viable. If that were the only problem, you could say: “Well, they
are making progress, and with just a little more effort, they’ll go
from 12 to 400.” But that is not the case; there is a greater
problem than just that. All amino acids are either left-handed or
right-handed, and all protein in living organisms is made of only
left-handed molecules. Scientists have no idea why this is so. It’s
totally inexplicable – and, of course, this factor raises
probabilities of producing proteins by random astronomically. This
is further complicated by the process of racemization. This process
is nothing more than the randomizing of amino acids to left and
right-handed amino acids. For example, if all left-handed amino
acids were put together and heated, they would become racemized and
the system would result in an equal collection of left-and
right-handed amino acids. But you see any biological activity cannot
take place if right-handed amino acids are present. All these lab
experiments have produced only racemized groups of amino acids And
even if these amino acids were combined from here to Pluto, there
would still only add up to one long string of dead amino acids that
would never exhibit any of the qualities of life. It is absolutely
impossible to create life."
|
