The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 ArgumentsWilliams, William A. (William Asbury)
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The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 Arguments
Williams, William A. (William Asbury)
Evolution
Now assuming, what seems an utter impossibility, that the wonderful
mechanism of the eye can be accounted for by chance or natural
selection (another name for chance since design is excluded), how can
we account for the _location_ of the eyes, and, in fact, of all the
other organs of the body? We can easily calculate the mathematical
probability on the basis of natural selection. There are from 2500 to
3500 square inches of surface to the human body, a space easily 3000
times the space occupied by an eye. The eye, by the laws of
probability, is just as likely to be located any where else, and has
one chance out of 3000 to be located where it is. But out, of our
abundant margin, we will concede the chance to be one out of 1000, and
hence its mathematical probability is .001. For mathematical
probability includes possibility and even improbability. The compound
probability of two things happening together is ascertained by
multiplying together their fractions of probability. Now the
probability of the location of the second eye where it is, also is
.001. And the compound probability of the location of both eyes where
they are, is .001 x .001 or .000,001. In like manner, the probability
of the location of each ear where it is, is .001, and of the two ears
.000,001. The compound probability of the location of two eyes and two
ears where they are, is .000001 x .000001 or .000,000,000,001. The two
eyes and two ears have but one chance out of a trillion or a million
million to be located where they are. The location of the mouth, the
nose, and every organ of the body diminishes this probability a
thousand fold. We are speaking mildly when we say that this calculation
proves that the evolution of the body, by chance or natural selection,
has not one chance in a million to be true. So ruthlessly does the pure
and reliable science of mathematics shatter the theory of evolution,
which so called scientists claim is as firmly established as the law of
gravitation.
Concerning the wild guess of the development of the legs, we again
quote from Mr. Bryan, “In His Image,” p. 98: “And according to the
evolutionist, there was a time when animals had no legs, and so the
legs came by accident. How? Well, the guess is that a little animal was
wiggling along on its belly one day, when it discovered a wart—it just
happened so,—and it was in the right place to be used to aid it in
locomotion; so, it came to depend upon the wart, and use finally
developed it into a leg. And then another wart, and another leg, at the
proper time—by accident—and accidentally in the proper place. Is it not
astonishing that any person, intelligent enough to teach school, would
talk such tommyrot to students, and look serious while doing so?”
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