built up of sub-units that have to be arranged in particular ways and not just haphazardly. Professors Hoyle and Wickramasinghe conclude that the chance of the most important proteins needed for life arising by chance is about 1 in 1040,000, i.e. the odds against are 1 followed by 40,000 zeros, which would take you a few hours and some 40 pages to write out!23 Faced with this virtual impossibility, they conclude that life could not have arisen on earth but must have come here from space. The Nobel