Schroeder contends in his seminal work, "The Hidden Face of God" that he and many scientists that like him, study the physics and chemistry of microbiological processes, that life as we know it is simply impossible, or at the most, unbelievably improbable. His book is one of the best I have ever read on explaining the tremendous difficulties that entropy as a well proven natural law should have never allowed the incredible complexities if even the simplest life deforms to ever develop. He covers the many catch-22s of requirements for life that simply could not be possible in nature without some greater force making life happen. He is not overly religious, Jewish by ancestry, but he has a background in applied statististucs and thinks the likelihood of life arising by accident, let alone sentient life, is over a trillion x trillion x trillion to one. He reminds people that the likelihood of life ever forming is similar to a swiss watchmaker depositing the intricate workings of a watch into a paper bag and shaking the bag so that the watch converts the external energy into a perfect assembly of parts (a finished working watch). Life did not happen by accident in an entropic universe us his contention. Therefore if not by accident, then by whom? (Plot reveal, by God).