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Author Topic:   A Proposed Proof That The Origin of The Universe Cannot Be Scientifically Explained
Theodoric
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Message 211 of 220 (694594)
03-26-2013 3:18 AM
Reply to: Message 200 by designtheorist
03-24-2013 6:54 PM


Re: Improbability and time
A random letter generator would be expected to hit one of the keys on the top row, a numeral, at some point in the more than 600 consecutive key strikes needed to produce the sonnet. You could not expect a random letter generator to completely avoid 25% of the keyboard for more than 600 consecutive key strikes.
That would make it non-random.
It is impossible to produce a Shakespearean sonnet at random even in infinite time.
No it would be produced infinite times.
I don't think you understand what the words random and infinite mean.
I suggest a basic primer on probability too.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

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