CICERO ON APOLOGETICS
Again, a quotation from Cicero to the same end but discloses the fact that the naturalistic theistic arguments were in use a century and more before Christ: “Can anything be done by chance which has all the marks of design? Four dice may by chance turn up their aces; but, do you think that four hundred dice, when thrown by chance, will turn up four hundred aces? Colors, when thrown upon canvas without design, may have some resemblance to a human face, but do you think they could make a picture as beautiful as the Coan Venus? The truth is, indeed, that chance never perfectly imitates design” From De Divinatione, lib. i., cap. 13, cited by Cooke, The Deity, pp. 134-35, cited by Chafer, Systematic Theology, pg. 154
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