Fill in the Blanks 235-testOnline version 235-test by Farhad Key 1 chances typewriter striker phrase long string emerge keystroke This illustration often used is the one that the monkey and the typewriters_ OK , we have a monkey sitting at a and the claim here is basically if you leave chance in time long enough you will get life . Don't worry about it , yes , its strange , yes it's wonderful , but leaves enough matter 600 million years on earth and you will have life . So , the monkey sitting at the typewriter : the are eventually he produces the complete works of Shakespeare but he doesn't manage to do it in 600 million years_ So what I decide to do is to run the numbers_ I instead of saying typing the complete work of Shakespeare . I just run the numbers for how long would it take a monkey typing one key a second_ To type " to be or not to be that is the question " , right ? On average how is it gonna take my monkey friend one a second . Don't know how you think it would be_ Maybe you could have a guess . Would it be less or more than 600 million years , which is the period life on earth isn't supposed to have within and when I run the numbers " to be or not to be is the question " tikes 12 . 6 trillion trillion trillion year to type just that and a DNA that something of that complexity emerges by chance undirected within 600 million years ? Again , it's mathematically possible but it's so incredible unlikely that it would have that it tilts me in favor of the Christian story in which God creating life , simply a question of saying let that be and there was .