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Now someone will object that the destruction of life likewise
becomes almost infinitely improbable: or flatly, that any arrangement
of elements in a complex universe is almost infinitely
improbable from the standpoint of chance. But this is
precisely the point to emphasize: namely, that any explanation
whatever of the elements of the world, in terms of pure chance,
is almost infinitely improbable and is therefore not an explanation
that ought to be accepted by a rational mind!
But horrors! We have forgotten the dice! After all, chance
does explain a game of dice, doesn’t it? Yet the answer is
plainly that chance does not explain a game of dice, for the only
significant results emerging from such a game are those previsioned
by intelligence in setting the conditions of the game itself.
All the possibilities of the dice---so far as the game is
concerned---originated in a conscious adaptation of means to an
end; namely, in this case, the amusement of the mind (or the
advancement of one’s bank account, or what have you) which
results from an ignorance of the exact causal factors that produce
a given combination of the dice.
Furthermore, the throwing of dice is not even a game unless the
ends to be realized are pre- [[213]] scribed in advance and made
possible by the conditions of the operations involved.
We therefore conclude that any chance explanation of the
universe, and in particular of the complex interrelation between
inorganic and organic existence, is almost infinitely improbable
as an explanation. When we add to this the self-contradictory
character of an assumed infinite series of motions, the improbability
of a chance explanation becomes absolute. Consequently,
we may affirm that a chance explanation of the fitness
of the inorganic in the production and maintenance of life is absolutely
improbable and that therefore such fitness is explicable
only in terms of a transcendent intelligent will that endowed
material elements with the necessary potentialities for their
essential function in connection with the existence of the whole