Kaichos Man writes:
even mathematicians have established a working definition of impossibility. It's 1 to 10
50.
Clearly something with a chance of 1 in 10
50 or less is still possible: the total result of two hundred coin flips in a row has a chance of about 1 in 1.6 x 10
60, and I think you'll agree that it's a matter of minutes to flip a coin two hundred times. Whatever the outcome, it had a chance of 1 in 1.6 x 10
60. Yet it happened.
Now, if you had
predicted this particular outcome, that would have been something so unlikely as to be well-nigh impossible. And it's this element of prediction that's missing from the story of evolution.
The chance of someone emerging as victorious from Wimbledon is 1. This person has won each and every tennis match they played during the tournament. Amazing? No, because someone
must be the victor. But it's much more unlikely to correctly
predict the victor.
Edited by Parasomnium, : No reason given.
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
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