On page 234 of his book The Biblical Basis for Modern Science (Baker Book House, 1984), Henry Morris shares the following statement made by scientist Fred Hoyle:
“Precious little in the way of biochemical evolution could have happened on earth. If one counts the number of trial assemblies of amino acids that are needed to give rise to the enzymes, the probability of their discovery by random shufflings turns out to be less than 1 in 1040,000.”
On page 432 of his book The Case for a Creator (Thorndike Press, 2004), Lee Strobel makes the following statement about DNA:
“DNA serves as the information storehouse for a finely choreographed manufacturing process in which the right amino acids are linked together with the right bonds in the right sequence to produce the right kind of proteins that fold in the right way to build biological systems.”
During the interview Strobel conducted with Stephen C. Meyer about biological information, Meyer stated that “Proteins, of course, are the key functional molecule in the cell; you can’t have life without them.” (p. 441) On page 451 of his book, Strobel writes that the probability of forming a short protein that is functional at random is 1 in 10125.
In Strobel’s interview with Robin Collins on the topic of the fine-tuning of the universe in terms of physics for the same book mentioned above, Collins stated that if the mass of the neutron was increased by 0.14%, then nuclear fusion in the stars would stop and there would not be an energy source for life. (p. 262)
Finally, in Strobel’s interview with Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Wesley Richards on the topic of the fine-tuning of the universe in terms of astronomy, Gonzalez and/or Richards shared the following information:
Earth is located in the Milky Way galaxy in a sliver of space that affords it safe haven from the hostile conditions in other parts of the Milky Way. (p. 333)
Earth’s circular orbit helps maintain a relatively steady temperature. (p. 340)
Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus protect Earth from too many comets, and Mars protects Earth from asteroids. (p. 340, 341)
Earth gets the right amount of light from the sun so that it can have liquid surface water. If the distance from the sun were changed by 5% in either direction, then animal life would not exist on Earth. (p. 341, 342)
The sun is the right mass and provides the right colors of light (red and blue). The sun’s light only varies by 0.1% over a sunspot cycle, which is about 11 years in duration. (p. 347, 348)
The moon stabilizes the tilt of Earth at 23.5 degrees, gives us mild seasons, increases tides that flush nutrients from land to oceans, and is instrumental in the tides that keep ocean circulation going. (p. 351, 352)
Earth is the right size to retain an atmosphere, which provides free exchange of the chemicals of life and protects us from cosmic radiation, right size to keep internal heat from escaping too fast, not too big which would cause a smooth surface due to gravity, and has radioactive elements and plate tectonics that produce mountains that are essential to a thriving biosphere. (p. 355, 356)