The vast majority of critics today who deny the creation of this world by a self-existent

eternal God, appeal to some kind of beginning to all of reality that comes from nothing.

And when you say to me that the universe was created by chance, you've taken a perfectly

good word to describe mathematical possibilities and now informed it with magical power.

What are the chances that anything can happen by chance?

Nothing can happen by chance because chance cannot do anything.

Once I had a discussion with a professor at Harvard who said to me the universe was created by chance.

And I pushed him a little bit on this, used a coin to illustrate the problem.

I said, five or fifty cent piece and flip it up in the air.

What are the chances that it comes up heads and he says fifty-fifty?

I said, okay, how much influence does chance exert on the flip of the coin?

He said, what do you mean?

I said, well, the way it comes up heads or tails is determined by how much pressure is exerted on it,

what the density of the atmosphere is, how many revolutions it takes, you know, and so on.

Whether you catch it here or here and whether after you catch it you turn it over or don't turn it over.

So those are all the variables.

How much influence does chance have?

And he still didn't get it. I said, well, if you're using the term chance to talk about mathematical possibilities,

it's a perfectly useful term.

The term chance is a meaningful word.

But when we ascribe to chance, a power to do something, we are saying that chance is something.

Now, what is it?

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