which can manufacturer complexity, "cannot work [quoting Dawkins] unless there is some minimal machinery of replication and replicator power, and the only machinery of replication that we know seems too complicated to have come into existence by means of anything less than many generations of cumulative selection!"
Dawkins wrote that the odds of a DNA/ protein replicating machine coming into existence is the same as turning all matter in the universe into monkey flesh--and still it wouldn't be enough--and one of those monkeys typing on a typewriter "Methinks it is like a weasel."
"In order for a monkey to write ...[Methinks it is like a weasel] by chance, it needs a very large amount of luck, but it is still measurable. We calculate the odds against it as about 10 thousand million million million million million million to 1 against."
Dawkin believed that to say that "God has always been is to take the lazy way out." (The Blind Watchmaker)
Stephen Hawking: “Because there is a law like gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing …Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.” )The Grand Design, p180)
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