We continue this morning with Jonathan Grays Forbidden Secret...

..“Keep it up, boy!” Little Jamie bent down again and tugged on his shoe laces. He pulled and pulled until he was out of breath.

“Why can’t I pull myself off the ground?” he cried in frustration.

Well, you know the answer to that. If you pull up on your boot straps for ten trillion years you still won’t lift yourself off the ground. The law of gravity stops you.

So here were two questions niggling at my mind:

1. Firstly, were the Laws of the Conservation of Energy and of Matter suspended long enough for Empty Space to give birth to a.rock?

2. Secondly, would the rock get wet (for no reason), and then give birth to an amoeba?

Er, yeah… sure it would, if you sort of screwed up your eyes and crossed your fingers!?

No one disputes that the origin of the universe involved physical matter appearing from nothing. Yet there is no scientific mechanism that could have caused it to occur.

But physical matter has appeared. Because we are here!

Pure lottery. What if a billion, billion, billion black balls were mixed together with one white ball, and I had to reach, blindfolded, and pick out the white one? What if my life depended on it? Pick out that white one or be killed.

If I reached, blindfolded into those zillions of black balls and discovered I had pulled out the one and only white ball… yes, I would rightly suspect that the whole thing was rigged.

I pulled it out by pure accident? What do you think? Wouldn’t you call me nuts if I told you I picked it first time by chance!

Origin of life
But that’s not all. What about the odds of life happening? Mathematically, it was simply impossible. When you consider the hundreds of factors required to produce life or even a planet capable of sustaining life as we know it – factors as diverse as the decay rates of elements and the distance of a planet’s orbit to its sun – and multiply them by the scientific and mathematical odds of those factors being right, it just doesn’t work. We shouldn’t be here.

That brings to mind something that Sir Fred Hoyle said. That honoured British astronomer calculated that the odds of only one factor necessary for life coming together by chance – the enzymes needed to perform the chemical functions needed to produce the most simple living creature – were one in 1040,000 . That’s mathematical shorthand for 10 followed by 40,000 zeros, enough to fill 20 pages of this book…000000000000 and so on.
(For perspective, mathematicians consider any probability of less than one in 1050 to be impossible.)
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