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There probably is a God.  He is not threatened by the theory of evolution.  In fact, you can say He is proven by the theory of evolution: so long as those impressionable young minds are taught probability and statistics along with the single cell from cosmic ooze idea.

Forget about any fundamental flaws in the evolutionary model such as violation of the second law, sheer complexity of DNA, and no record of a genetic mutation ever causing an improvement.  Let’s just look at some numbers.  No biology.  No chemistry.  Just math.

Emile Borel is a famous mathematician and one of the world’s foremost experts on mathematical probability.  Borel’s law states that the occurrence of any event, where the chances are beyond 1 in 10 to the fiftieth  power, is an event that we can be certain will never happen no matter how much time is allotted and no matter how many conceivable opportunities could exist for the event to take place.  To put that in perspective, 10 to the fiftieth seconds is well over 3 trillion years.

Harold Morowitz is a former professor of Biophysics at Yale University.  He estimated the probability of formation of the smallest, simplest living organism to be 1 in 10 to the 340 millionth power.  I don’t know if he’s even close but he’s an expert and he’s infinitely less probable than what Borel says is already a mathematical impossibility.  If you do the math, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution as fact must, by definition, believe in miracles.

If we are going to accept violation of the second law to account for formation of a living cell, how much more likely would be the formation of simple inanimate objects like metal spoons.  Mathematically, there would be a complete, randomly formed Walmart on every corner long before we even get close to the probability of a living cell.

Just because we believe something doesn’t make it true.  What does math say about God?  Is Jesus who the Bible says he is?  In the Old Testament, many people, from many different places, at many different times gave us recorded prophecies about the coming Messiah.   Christ fulfilled well over 300 old testament prophecies.  These events are often recorded by multiple historical sources outside the text of the Bible.  The odds of a single man fulfilling just any 48 of the prophecies is 1 in 10 to the one hundred fifty seventh power.  Impossible by random chance.  It’s no accident.  He is who he said he is.