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Subodh Pandit:  Come Search with Me, Let's Look for God

Subodh Pandit

The Existence of God

Just One Way?

Comparing the Five Great World Religions, Part 1

Comparing the Five Great World Religions, Part 2

Comparing the Five Great World Religions, Part 3

The Man, The Book, The Supreme Transaction

Let's go ahead and start, restart, resume.

Circumstantial, the anthropic principle, logical analysis, the formation of granite, and now for a statistical analysis.

Numbers are the hardest forms of evidence that the human mind can grapple with.

Statements and descriptions are of 1 kind.

It's an interesting way of looking at it.

It's also a mathematical concept called probability.

What are the chances that something would occur, what are the chances it would not occur?

In day to day life, 10 to the power of 8 or 100 million, If something will keep on occurring a hundred million times, we say in our own jargon, it's going to always occur, so it's a fact.

If it will occur only once and will not occur 10 to the power of 8 times, 10 to the power of 8 is a hundred million again, then we say it's not possible.

When it comes to scientific evaluation, in other words, when they build these roller coasters or suspension bridges or send out a plane into the sky or a rocket into the outer space, then the principles of some of those things that they use have to be mathematically brought to at least 10 to the power of 15, 1 quadrillion.

In other words, it must occur 10 to the power of 15 times with only 1 chance of failure and then they will use it.

And so if there's only 1 chance of occurrence and 10 to the power of 15 chances of non-occurrence of failure that according to scientific evaluation it is not possible.

When it comes to stating a scientific law, the number goes up to 10 to the power of 50.

10 to the power of 50 occurrences and 1 non-occurrence, the law is established.

1 non-occurrence, rather 1 occurrence with 10 to the power of 50 occurrences and 1 non-occurrence, the law is established.

1 non-occurrence, 1 rather 1 occurrence with 10 to the power of 50 non-occurrences, it is utterly impossible.

10 to the power of 50 is an arbitrary number, but how many of us can grasp 10 to the power of 50?

Let me give you an example, let me give you an idea of what it might be like.

Suppose we are looking at the law of gravity.

I'm going to leave this pointer once per second, looking for that chance in which the pointer will not come down like this, but it will just stay there or float away.

To do it 10 to the power of 18 times will take me 15 billion years.

We told ourselves in the beginning if something impresses you, you just go ahead and say wow.

To do it just 10 to the power of 18 times will take me 15 billion years.

To do it 10 to the power of 20 times will take me 1.5 trillion years.

The age of our universe from the big bang till today.

So you're still going on looking for that 1 chance.

Can you see that 10 to the power of 50 is a huge number?

That 10 to the power of 50 is a huge number.

If all 6 billion of us on the earth were to do this once per second for 1.5 trillion years, we would still be 10 to the power of 27, 28 or something like that.

So all of us trying, we still haven't got that 1 chance.

1 chance and 10 to the power of 50 non-chances means it is utterly impossible.

Sir Michael Denton from New Zealand, I think, was the first 1 to challenge Darwin on his theory of evolution at its origins, the origin of life.

What are the chances that the first cell had 100 proteins in it because we need 100 proteins at the minimum for the cell to be alive.

What are the chances that 100 proteins would get together by themselves.

100 proteins giving a maximum combined probability of 10 to the power of minus 2000 or 1 chance in 10 to the power of 2000.

10 to the power of 50 we say is impossible.

Now, this is a huge number, as it is we said this was big, this is really huge.

Suppose we tell him Sir Michael Denton, I think you made a calculation that's flawed.

Now that's a big mistake for our scientists to make, but just say, Dr.

The number should be smaller by a factor of 100 billion.

What is 10 to the power of 2000 divided by 100 billion, do you know?

You can't question these numbers because they are too big to be questioned.

Now, in 1 cell, if you want 100 proteins, you need 10, 000 amino acids and the 10, 000 amino acids have to be all levo, left sided links, that is all, only left sided links.

In the chromosomes, you need about 100, 000 nucleotides and in this case, you need only right-handed links.

What are the chances of getting 10, 000 amino acids left-handed and 100, 000 nucleotides right-handed in 1 and the same place to have formed that cell.

Harold Morowitz, he said, why don't we look at the whole cell?

Cell wall, cell membrane, gallbladder apparatus, mitochondria, everything.

What is the chance of bringing all those components together in the same point at the same time so it just might form a cell?

1 chance in 10 to the power of 100 billion.

1 is to 10 to the power of 50 is impossible.

And that is just to bring the stuff together.

Now somehow we've got to put life into it.

Once life comes in, each part must know what to do.

What are the chances that they'll know what to do?

What are the chances that that first cell will know exactly how to divide so that when it's divided, both are still alive?

Have you ever tried to divide something into 2 and both still alive?

Don't try it on yourself or on anybody else.

Both were alive at the end and then became more and more complex.

Plant life, animal life, and then finally human beings, and then finally not only did we have life, we began to think from where did that come?

And then we began to appreciate things like courage and beauty and love and all that.

If the list is endless, what are the chances?

If there are only 2 possibilities, like we said there were, only 2 and only 1 is correct, then if A is possible, so is B.

If A becomes improbable, B becomes probable.

Let me give you a real life, maybe a math test, but I'll make it easy for you.

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Just One Way?

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The Existence of God

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Just One Way?

59m

Comparing the Five Great World Religions, Part 1

1h

Comparing the Five Great World Religions, Part 2

57m

Comparing the Five Great World Religions, Part 3

1h

The Man, The Book, The Supreme Transaction

1h

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