If you put various pieces of metal in a barrel and shake it for a million years, the probability of a wristwatch coming out of it is zero. And if we made it billions of years, would we have a greater chance? And a single cell is far more complex than a wristwatch.

— Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (1915–1995), Apologet und Naturwissenschaftler

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (1915–1995) war ein britischer Chemiker, Pharmakologe und evangelikaler Apologet, der nach internationalen Lehraufträgen viele Jahre in der Schweiz lebte und publizierte. Er vertrat einen kreationistischen Ansatz und argumentierte mit biochemischen sowie informationstheoretischen Modellen gegen die Evolutionstheorie, was in der naturwissenschaftlichen Fachwelt auf breite Ablehnung stieß. Für Bibelleser veranschaulicht sein Werk den Versuch konservativ-evangelikaler Apologetik, naturwissenschaftliche Argumente mit einem wörtlichen Verständnis der biblischen Schöpfungsberichte zu verbinden.

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