키케로는 계속해서 에피쿠로스의 진화론에 도전하면서 미립자들이 우연히 충돌하면서 이 세계만큼 아름다운 것이 형성된다고 확신할 수 있는 사람이 있다는 것을 기이하게 여겼다. 그는 이것이 알파벳의 글자들을 계속 땅바닥에 던지다 보면 언젠가는 에니우스의 『연대기』가 모두 쓰여진다고 믿는 것과 똑같다고 말하였다.7 ,8 And he asked: if chance collisions of particles could make a world, why then cannot they build much less difficult objects, like a colonnade, a temple, a house, or a city?9 National Eye Institute 근세의 설계 논법자들
Cicero continued his challenge to the evolutionism of Epicurus by marvelling that anyone could persuade himself that chance collisions of particles could form anything as beautiful as the world. He said that this was on a par with believing that if the letters of the alphabet were thrown on the ground often enough they would spell out the Annals of Ennius .7 ,8 And he asked: if chance collisions of particles could make a world, why then cannot they build much less difficult objects, like a colonnade, a temple, a house, or a city?9ParaCrawl Corpus ParaCrawl Corpus