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Before proceeding, here is a summary of the previous chapter: Both Big-Bang cosmogony and Darwinism depend on the idea that an accumulation of improbable chance changes over a long period of time just happened to create the universe, the earth, life, and humankind.
It is worth taking a bit of time to explore just how improbable it is that time plus random changes created the earth in which we live or any living organisms. Have you ever had your cat walk across your keyboard while your head was turned? Did the new input to your document pass the spell checker, much less the grammar checker? How many of your typos actually improve your document (unless perhaps your subconscious is at work)? How often does a driving error just happen to avoid a wreck instead of causing one? If you are building something and make a substantial mistake while measuring, how often does the cut piece fit better? If you dump out a bag of child’s blocks (with letters on all six faces) onto the floor, what does common sense tell you about the chances that the blocks will all, by chance, stack one on another and make a coherent sentence?
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