Every week millions of people in this country purchase lottery tickets. Most of them have just a glimmer of hope of winning the jackpot even though the odds of winning are extremely slim. Yet the odds of winning the lottery are billions of times greater than the probability that a single cell could ever evolve Evolution is founded on the idea that molecules randomly combined over a billion years ago to form the first living cell.
Cells are extremely complex and contain DNA, proteins, and a myriad of other components.
We are going to use the science of statistical analysis to examine the possibility that just the proteins necessary for life could ever have evolved. First we must understand that proteins are simply chains of hundreds of amino acids. Although amino acids do form naturally on Earth, the big problem is that they won't link together to form proteins when they are in the presence of oxygen. But there is absolutely no evidence for this idea. In fact, the evidence in the oldest rocks shows that oxygen has always been present in our atmosphere.