NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD
English book, PDF p. 164
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 164 ~ proteins having evolved randomly, by chance. Now, just imagine, if life as we know it had come into existence by a stroke of chance, how much time would it have taken? To quote the biophysicist, Frank Allen: Proteins are the essential constituents of all living cells, and they consist of the five elements, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur, with possibly 40,000 atoms in the ponderous molecule. As there are 92 chemical elements in Nature, all distributed at random, the chance that these five elements may come together to form the molecule, the quantity of matter that must be continually shaken up, and the length of time necessary to finish the task, can all be calculated. A Swiss mathematician18, Charles Eugene Guye, has made the computation and finds that the odds against such an occurrence are 10160 to 1, or only one chance in 10160, that is 10 multiplied by itself 160 times, a number far too large to be expressed in words. The amount of matter

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