From Denial to Acknowledgment

GOD: VOICE OF HUMAN NATURE which doesn’t profess to know anything about creation and doesn’t have a creator built into it.’ But I now find myself driven to this position by logic. There is no other way to understand the precise ordering of the chemicals except to invoke the creations on a cosmic scale. “The two also believe that cellular life had already evolved to a high degree before the Earth was born, about three and a half billion years ago. “We received life with the fundamental biochemical problems already solved,” says Wickramasinghe: We were hoping, as scientists, that there would be a way round our conclusion—but there isn’t. Logic is still hopelessly against that.” (The Hindustan Times, September 6, 1981) From the above article, it can be seen that what convinced the two scholars were the calculations they each did independently, which led to the mathematical chances of life starting spontaneously to be minuscule. Each found that the odds against the spark of life igniting accidentally on Earth were staggering—in mathematical jargon, ’10 to the power of 40,000’ (that is, 1, followed by 40,000 zeroes). “That number is so imponderable in the universe that I am 100 per cent certain that life could not have started spontaneously on Earth,” Wickramasinghe stated. “It is quite a shock,” the article quoted Wickramasinghe. “From my earliest training as a scientist, I was strongly brainwashed to believe that science cannot be consistent with any deliberate creation. That notion has had to be very painfully shed. I am quite uncomfortable in the situation, the state of mind I now find myself in. But there is no logical way out of it.”