The present paper was presented at the 15th Anniversary Bible-Science Convention in Anaheim, California, August 1979. One of the most troublesome arguments put forward by our evolutionist friends has been the argument that with increasing amounts of time the evolution of matter and motion, stellar bodies, and ultimately life itself becomes more and more likely. However improbable we regard this event, . . .
Time is in fact the hero of the plot.
There is something about this argument that the human mind finds intuitively persuasive. But the counter-argument is also intuitively powerful. In the same article devoted to the random monkey argument Bennett has also reproduced a marvelous passage from a book by John Tillotson published in 1719. And yet this is much more easy to be imagined than how the innumerable blind pans of matter should rendezvous themselves into a world. In answer to the latter question of blind matter coming together into a world, the modern physicist would say that the matter got compacted enough to be gravitationally bound and collapse into a solid body.