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Sterling:
You're kidding right?
The Earth and it's inhabitants are mediocre? That pantheon of really smart 
guys you mentioned are mediocre?  Elvis, the most perfectly evolved human 
being and the reason for the existence of the universe is merely mediocre? 
So you're telling me that rock n roll, modern art & literature, science, 
Thai food,  57 Chevys,  Hollywood movies, are not magnificent? Just a 
byproduct of the hallowed Building Blocks. Nothing special about matter 
appearing out of nothing, organizing itself into living cells, then evolving 
intelligence, then technology, then the Gibson hollow body electric guitar. 
Nah that kind of stuff happens all the time. We just don't know about it 
with our puny telescopes and crummy spectrometers. We're like those rotifers 
that could speak without a larynx, think without a cerebral cortex, but yet 
could not build a simple telescope, and thus lived in their own Local Bubble 
of ignorance. Maybe it was the lack of opposable thumbs?

It doesn't take much to see that the Earth is an incredibly special place. 
For one thing it harbors life. Let's take just one of the hundreds of 
exacting parameters for life and apply it to our Local Neighborhood. 
Magnetospheres for example. Examine the magnetospheres of all the other 
planets in the Solar System.  They're all mediocre and screwed up! Earth's 
magnetosphere on the other hand is perfect for life. It's magnificent!

I know that Clifton, Ferreira and Land are considered mavericky,  but they 
do have equations to back up their assertions. And we all know the 
magico-religious importance of formulae. What if some of our most basic 
assumptions are wrong?

We don't know that things are like this all over.  We don't have a clue 
really.

I know this may sound all creationy and all, but Fred Hoyle was no fool.

The laws of probability are working against us. We are a magnificent 
impossibility!


The Evolution of Life, Probability Considerations

and Common Sense-Part Three

By Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr. John Weldon

The Odds of a Complex Molecule

Noted astronomer Fred Hoyle uses the Rubik cube to illustrate the odds of 
getting a

single molecule, in this case a biopolymer. Biopolymers are biological 
polymers, i.e., large

molecules such as nucleic acids or proteins. In the fascinating illustration 
below, he calls

the idea that chance could originate a biopolymer "nonsense of a high order":

At all events, anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the Rubik cube 
will

concede the near-impossibility of a solution being obtained by a blind 
person moving

the cubic faces at random. Now imagine 1050 blind persons each with a 
scrambled

Rubik cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously 
arriving at

the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling at 
just one

of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only 
biopolymers

but the operating programme of a living cell could be arrived at by chance 
in a

primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high 
order.13

DeNouy provides another illustration for arriving at a single molecule of 
high dissymmetry

through chance action and normal thermic agitation. He assumes 500 trillion 
shakings

per second plus a liquid material volume equal to the size of the earth. For 
one molecule it

would require "10243 billions of years." Even if this molecule did somehow 
arise by chance, it

is still only one single molecule. Hundreds of millions are needed, 
requiring compound

probability calculations for each successive molecule. His logical 
conclusion is that "it is

totally impossible to account scientifically for all phenomena pertaining to 
life."14

Even 40 years ago, scientist Harold F. Blum, writing in Time's Arrow and 
Evolution,

wrote that, "The spontaneous formation of a polypeptide of the size of the 
smallest known

proteins seems beyond all probability."15

Noted creation scientists Walter L. Bradley and Charles Thaxton, authors of 
The Mystery

of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories, point out that the 
probability of assembling

amino acid building blocks into a functional protein is approximately one 
chance in 4.9 X

10191.16 "Such improbabilities have led essentially all scientists who work 
in the field to reject

random, accidental assembly or fortuitous good luck as an explanation for 
how life began."

17 Now, if a figure as "small" as 5 chances in 10191 is referenced by such a 
statement,

then what are we to make of the kinds of probabilities below that are 
infinitely less? The

mind simply boggles at the remarkable faith of the materialist.

According to Coppedge, the probability of evolving a single protein molecule 
over 5

billion years is estimated at 1 chance in 10161. This even allows some 14 
concessions to

help it along which would not actually be present during evolution.18 Again, 
this is no

chance.

Cells and Bacteria

Consider that the smallest theoretical cell is made up of 239 proteins. 
Further, at least

124 different types of proteins are needed for the cell to become a living 
thing. But the

simplest known self-reproducing organisms is the H39 strain of PPLO 
(mycoplasma) con