NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD
English book, PDF p. 167
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 167 ~ rock by examining the lead formed from it. And since uranium has existed beneath the layers of rock on the earth’s surface right from the time of its solidification, we can calculate from its disintegration rate the exact point in time when the rock solidified. In his book, Human Destiny, Le Comte Du Nouy has made an excellent, detailed analysis of this problem: It is impossible because of the tremendous complexity of the question to lay down the basis for a calculation which would enable one to establish the probability of the spontaneous appearance of life on earth (p. 33). The volume of the substance necessary for such a probability to take place is beyond all imagination. It would be that of a sphere with a radius so great that light would take 1082 years to cover this distance. The volume is incomparably greater than that of the whole universe including the farthest galaxies, whose light takes only 2x106 (two million) years to reach us. In brief, we would have to

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