...two billion years. What we regard as impossible on the basis of human experience is meaningless here. Given so much time, the 'impossible' becomes possible,...possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. 0ne has only to wait: time itself performs the miracles."The biologist, Leo Koch, agrees that given...

...two billion years. What we regard as impossible on the basis of human experience is meaningless here. Given so much time, the impossible becomes possible,...certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs the miracles." This line of argument has been sharply criticized, but the critique only leads to deeper...

...George Wald wrote in 1954: Time is in fact the hero of the plot. The time with which we have to deal is the order of two billion years . . . Given so much...certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs the miracles.48 Recent scientific discoveries, however, have pretty much destroyed the miracle-producing...

...time with which we have to deal is of the order of 2 billion years. (Wald wrote in 1954; we now say 4 billion years.) Given so much time, the impossible...certain. One has only to wait; time itself performs the miracles. But critics arose, critics of high renown, to argue that even 2 or 4 billion years was...

...chance could realistically be the creative agent. The words of highly respected biologist George Wald, "Given so much time the 'impossible' becomes possible,...possible probable and the probable virtually certain," simply do not suffice anymore (Wald quoted in L. Cudmore 1977, p. 138.). Even in the monumental Molecular...

...combinations over some two billion years could account even for so complex a phenomenon as the origin of life. "Given so much time, the impossible becomes possible,...certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs the miracles. ". Looking back now, one is astonished atthe crude, totally nonempirical simplicity of...

...[in the generation of the first form of life]. . . . Given so much time, the 'impossible' becomes the possible, the possible probable, and the probable...certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs the miracles" (George Wald, "The Origin of Life," Scientific American 191 (August 1954), p. 48). elapsed...

...2 billion years. What we regard as impossible on the basis of human experience is meaningless here. Given so much time, the "impossible " becomes possible,...probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles " (George Wald, "The Origin of Life" in Editors...