Atheism and Chance: Can Randomness Explain the Wonders of Creation?
A vast number of atheists have
made excessive use of the word chance. For them, it has become the
convenient explanation for creation and for every phenomenon they encounter in
existence.
Anyone who reflects on this approach
will find that they have turned their backs on their own reasoning. The only
explanation for such extreme thinking is that their hatred of religion has clouded
their vision, plunging them into profound blindness and leading them beyond the
bounds of reason and what is commonly accepted.
In fact, explaining the extraordinary wonders of creation
through chance is more difficult for the rational mind to accept than
acknowledging the existence of a Wise and All-Knowing Creator.
If someone denies the existence of a
Creator of the universe, it would be even more reasonable for them to reject
the notion of chance as an explanation. Thus, a number of prominent Western
scientists have abandoned this kind of atheistic folly and done justice to
their own intellects, rejecting chance as an explanation for the creation of
living beings and the extraordinary phenomena associated with them—indeed, the
many forms of wonder found in existence.
What Does Science Say About the Probability
of Life Arising by Chance?
Frank Allen, a distinguished Western
biologist with extensive expertise in his field, states that proteins in the
cell are composed of five elements: hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur, and
oxygen. He explains that a protein molecule contains approximately 40,000
atoms, while there are 92 chemical elements in nature. Therefore, we can
calculate the probability of a protein molecule forming by chance.
A Swiss mathematician, Charles Eugene,
carried out this calculation and concluded that the probability of a single
protein molecule forming by chance is one in ten multiplied by itself 160 times.
He described this as a number that cannot be written out.
He further stated that such a chance
occurrence would require ten multiplied by itself 343 times “years”—a period
vastly exceeding the age of the Earth as estimated by scientists.
And this is merely the time required
for a single protein molecule to form. What, then, are we to make of billions
of such molecules? And what about the living organisms whose cells contain
them?
Atheism, Chance, and the Limits of
Scientific Explanation
When atheism relies on chance to explain the mysteries of the universe, it does so despite knowing that this approach amounts to speculation that contradicts science. The only reason it resorts to such confused reasoning is its aversion to religion and its unwillingness to submit to the Creator, should it acknowledge His existence.
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