August 8 – The Molecules of Life Arrangement Odds
The molecules of life are never random arrangements of parts. If we think of a protein molecule (the most common molecule of life) as a strand of beads made up of 20 different colors, each color must be placed in exactly the correct location. There are 300 such specifically arranged strands in even a minimally complex cell. The odds of even one of these 300 “necklaces” happening by chance is once in 10125 tries. This is more than every electron, proton, and neutron in the entire universe. This is clearly impossible.
Michael Denton, an Australian scientist, has written that even the simplest cell would require at least 100 functional protein “necklaces” to appear simultaneously and start interacting with each other in perfect coordination. Since just one protein is as unlikely as 1/10125, the odds of 100 such proteins is 1/102000. That is a one followed by 2000 zeros! It is abundantly clear that life has a designer of unimaginable intelligence and ability!
Psalm 136:3,4
Reference
Strobel, Lee. 2004. The Case for a Creator. Zondervan: Grand Rapids, MI, p. 229.
Denton, Michael. 1986. Evolution: A Theory in Crisis. Adler & Adler, Bethesda, MD, p. 323.
Learn More
Origin of life – An explanation of what is needed for abiogenesis (or biopoiesis)
Recommended
Book: Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, Michael Denton
Book: Signature in the Cell, Stephen C. Meyer