brates must have involved billions of animals, but no one has ever found a fossil of ONE of them.8LIFE FROM LIFEAll observable evidence tells us that life only begets life. Life has never been observed to come from inorganic or lifeless materials, in nature or in the laboratory. This law is evidence that all life, including you and me, came from the hand of the ONE Who is life."In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men." John 1:1-4 PROBABILITY9The probability of the origin of life by accident is beyond all reason. To illustrate probability, we may line up two objects, "A" and "B", in two orders, A and B or B and A. Three objects may be lined up in 6 different orders. The list below shows a bold number which represents objects, followed by the number of different possibilities in which that many objects could be lined up:1 - 12 - 23 - 64 - 245 - 1206 - 7207 - 5,040 8 - 40,3209 - 362,88010 - 3,628,80011 - 39,916,80012 - 479,001,60013 - 6,227,020,80014 - 87,178,291,200 15 - 1,307,674,368,00016 - 20,922,789,888,00017 - 355,687,428,096,00018 - 6,402,373,705,728,00019 - 121,645,100,408,832,00020 - 2,432,902,008,176,640,00021 - 51,090,942,171,709,440,000 Now, what is the point? A cellular enzyme molecule is made up of a chain of some 100 to 500 amino acids, of which there are 20 kinds in living systems. Calculating the probability of a functional enzyme happening by chance is more complicated than the n factorial in our list (which assumes n kinds of items arranged n at a time). Scientists10, 11 generously estimate there is 1 chance in 1020 for amino acids to just happen to join up in the right order to form a simple enzyme molecule. Even if this did happen, we still would not have life, only a tiny part of a complete set of enzymes an...
