Ninth Configuration

Ninth Configuration1980

Director: William Peter Blatty
Stars: Stacy Keach, Robert Loggia, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Rating: Unrated
Runtime: 113 minutes

The lunatics are running the asylum... but are they really lunatics? Is Colonel Kane (Stacy Keach) really a noted psychiatrist, assigned to supervise patients in an experimental government clinic, or is he really "Killer" Kane, a decorated… more »



Col. Vincent Kane:
In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the ninth configuration. But given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would have taken for just one of these protein molecules to appear entirely by chance? Roughly ten to the two hundred and forty-third power billions of years. And I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in God.

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