Who Made God?

that is only the beginning. It still remains for DNA to arise from proteins and for the complex machinery of the cell to arise. These issues are too complex to set numbers to.

On the face of it, such a scenario for life’s origin seemed hopelessly improbable. Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe estimated that the odds against the required ten to twenty amino acids coming together by chance (remember that at this stage of the game there is no natural selection and so no chemical evolution) to form an enzyme is on the order of one chance out of 1020. Given the size of the earth’s oceans and the billions of years available, they thought such an improbability could be faced. But they point out that there are two thousand different enzymes made out of amino acids, all of which would have to be formed by chance, and the odds of that happening are around 1 in 1040.000, odds so “outrageously small” that they could not be faced “even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.”26 And

Old Testament contains scores of prophecies about the coming of the Messiah. Barton Payne’s Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy lists 191 of them, while Oxford scholar Alfred Edersheim cites 400. “The most important point here is to keep in mind the organic unity of the Old Testament,” Edersheim noted. “Its predictions are not isolated, but features of one grand prophetic picture.”27

Habakkuk 1:13; Revelation 20:11–15

C. S. Lewis put it, “The door of hell is locked on the inside.”