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How do we know G-d created the world?by Mrs. Sarah Levi
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statistically, given enough ink spills, it's likely that the poem will result
Posted by: Gary, Zürich, Switzerland on Apr 07, 2005
It may take a billion attempts, but it'll happen eventually.
Who says that didn't happen with the world?
Fuzzy math
Posted by: Hillel, Kfar Chabad, Israel on Apr 09, 2005
[btw, it's hard to argue with statistics, but perhaps can someone explain why throughout recorded history no Pulitzer winning poem has thus been created?]
And this is an "enlightened" opinion -- someone who would believe that the world is a one in a trillion freak accident, rather than allowing the rational idea of a creator to enter his mind!
Yes "statistically" it is a possibility that the beautiful skyscraper you are walking by is an accident. No architects, builders, electricians, plumbers, or interior designers, just a garbage dump where people dumped bricks, cement and steel throughout the years. But which fool would believe that?
Here's some science for ya...
Posted by: Anonymous, Birmingham, UK on May 11, 2005
Well if the chances of life forming by itself were one in a billion... think about it... there's easily a billion planets in the universe, and we only know for certain that this one planet has life on it really, don't we? We only believe design exists because are ourselves examples of design, so we can marvel at ourselves. It doesn't have to be one in a billion, it can be whatever you want it to be, but there are so many planets in the universe... and the truth is we don't know the actual probability so we can't argue in this way at all!
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Perhaps the statistical possibility of the spilled ink creating the beautiful artwork is one in a billion (although I find it hard to believe that the odds would be that low), but it is certainly a statistical impossibility for the perfect world we live in to have happened by chance.
That's one paper, this is trillions of trillions of atoms happening to come together in perfect harmony.
As the previous poster mentioned, what's the statistical probability of finding an Empire State Building -- with all its electrical and plumbing systems in operational use -- in an island which was never inhabited; it just evolved!
....
Posted by: Adam Goldstein, Plainfield, NJ on May 26, 2006
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Statistically impossible
Posted by: Jonathan Wagner, Windsor, ON, Canada on Jun 17, 2006
For instance, is there ever a 1 in a billion chance that it can rain and not rain in the exact same time at the exact same place?
There is the reality of -impossibility-. The rules and logic of the universe are never violated. If ink is spilled onto a paper, it is an impossibility that it would ever create a poem in say an english font. Not 1 in billion, not 1 in infinite, impossible.
To validate this point, on the longest time frame possible, infinity, flipping a coin will be what work out to what? 50/50. That's statistics.
There is no such thing as "random", random is simply ignorance of the variables involved - in any, and all cases.
Probability
Posted by: Pinchos on Jan 16, 2007
Or - famous: "If you put a monkey in front of the key board, sooner or later it will write Shakespeare".
Take only 10 letters keyboard.
The probability:
To strike specific letter 0.1%.
Two letters 0.01%.
...
10-letters-word is 0.1^10% (10 zerous before 1).
...
20-letters-word is 0.1^20%.
Take a monkey that can type 10 strokes / second (To be fare - I can't type as fast...)
In one year it will hit:
365*24*60*60*10 ~= 3*10^8.
For our fast typing monkey -
To randomly come up with 10-letters-word would take ~30 years.
20-letters-word? - 3*10^11 years... Longer than 13.7B.
1 in a billion would be probable. But we are speaking about much, much, much lower probabilities...
creation
Posted by: Marilyn Gold, Beverly Hills, Ca on Jan 26, 2007
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