Behold, a life-size replica of a Star Wars X-Wing fighter, made out of LEGOs.
According to this article in New York magazine, the full scale model required 5,335,200 LEGOs and took 32 master builders working more than 17,000 hours to complete.
The LEGO X-Wing has a wing span of 44 feet, weighing 44,000 pounds.
Any parent whose kids enjoyed LEGOs has a memory of stepping barefoot on one of the ubiquitous plastic blocks. But don’t worry about the LEGO X-Wing; it’s all glued together as one piece.
Now whether or not you are a fan of the toy building blocks, you’ll have to admit the LEGO X-Wing fighter is one impressive creation.
Compared to the DNA molecule, however, the LEGO X-Wing is actually quite simple. Over five million building blocks were used? That’s nothing compared to the six billion bits of information called nucleotides that comprise a DNA molecule, the “LEGO” of life.
The complex instructions coded into DNA provide the blueprint for an organism that is produced through an ordered and specific process of development into a body plan.
For abiogenesis to have occurred, either the enormously improbable event occurred in which DNA self-organized just in time for some fortuitous catalyst caused inanimate matter to come to life…or, some sort of help was somehow involved.
In fact, two-time Nobel Prize-winning scientist Ilya Prigogine said,
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.
While I have tremendous respect for the work of scientists such as Dr. Prigogine, I must reject his suggestion that the probability of abiogenesis without divine intervention is literally zero, because that implies we have absolute certainty about the origin of life.
I’m perfectly satisfied with the probability of abiogenesis without the assistance of supernatural intelligence as very near zero, because the simple acknowledgement that God is infinitely more probable because the only alternative to accidental is intentional.
The powerful entity that has both the means and ability to execute on that intent could only be God.
My atheist friends can protest as much as they would like, but I’m not concerned with winning friends or influencing people. I’m only interested in the truth. According to the Big Picture, as described in my book Counterargument for God, you can’t answer an existential question by only looking at a small fraction of the evidence.
If you fairly look at the evidence ,it becomes readily obvious that “accidental” speciation cannot simply explain our existence through purely natural events, not if an accidental Big Bang and abiogenesis by blind luck are virtually impossible.
As we learn from our observations of the Big Picture, the only alternative to God is extraordinary good luck.
Luck too good to be true.
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