“I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone — the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.”

— George Gallup

Quoted in http://books.google.com/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&q=&quot;I+could+prove+God+statistically&quot;&pg=PA298#v=onepage Readers Digest (October 1943)

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