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Scripp_man Inactive Member |
If you have read the Hitchhiker's Guide, you will probably be familiar with the part about the babble fish. If not, let me bring you up to speed.
The babble fish is a so heavily advanced creature it is hard to comprehend. It lives inside the auditory canal of a host and feeds on the language of the creatures that the host hears. It then runs the language through an internal biological matrix and excretes the information into the host as the host's native language. It has been used as proof of the NON existance of god. The logic goes something like this. God: "I refuse to prove myself because my existance requires faith"Bystander: "But you did prove yourself with the babble fish" God: "Oh. I suppose you are right" and he is destroyed in a puff of logic. Which leads me to my main point. Wouldn't the logic be the same? By proving god, will creationists prove the nonexistance of god? If so, then should evolutionists try to prove god instead of proving one doesn't exist? And if this is the case, if there is any proof to be found, would it ultimately prove evolution? I'm interested in hearing some other opinions.
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Psycospin13 Guest |
yeah but a fiction writer is not exactly the best source of info even though the logic makes sense
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Primordial Egg Inactive Member |
Douglas Adams RIP
quote: PE ------------------It's good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. - Bertrand Russell
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mark24 Member (Idle past 5194 days) Posts: 3857 From: UK Joined: |
So long & thanks for all the fish.......
------------------Occam's razor is not for shaving with.
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3941 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
Somehow, I must think that the HGTTG concept of "improbibility drive" must have some sort of relevance to the creation/evolution debate. Anyone recall the "improbibility drive" story, and the statement said when the odds decend to 1:1?
Moose
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John Inactive Member |
quote: While the improbability drive is impressive, nothing compares to the bistromatic drive for speed and shear raw power. ------------------
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mark24 Member (Idle past 5194 days) Posts: 3857 From: UK Joined: |
quote: Indeedy, IMHO the improbability drive is the most elegant, the bistromatic drive was relatively limited by "merely" inflated integers found in bistros & restaurants, whilst the improbability drive was capable of anything! Mark ------------------Occam's razor is not for shaving with.
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Mammuthus Member (Idle past 6474 days) Posts: 3085 From: Munich, Germany Joined: |
The answer is 42
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Primordial Egg Inactive Member |
quote: The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances in a mere nothing of a second, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace. It was discovered bya lucky chance, and then developed into a governable form of propulsion by the Galactic Government's research team on Damogran. This, briefly, is the story of its discovery: The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) was of course well understood - and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy. Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this - partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties. Another thing they couldn't stand was the perpetual failure they encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralysing distances between the furthest stars, and in the end they grumpily announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.Then, one day, a student who had been left to sweep up the lab after a particularly unsuccessful party found himself reasoning this way: If, he thought to himself, such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea ... and turn it on! He did this, and was rather startled to discover that he had managed to create the long sought after golden Infinite Improbability generator out of thin air. It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass. PE ------------------It's good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. - Bertrand Russell
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Peter Member (Idle past 1478 days) Posts: 2161 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Joined: |
Yes ... but what's the question?
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Gzus Inactive Member |
[quote][b]should evolutionists try to prove god instead of proving one doesn't exist?[/quote][/b]
We do neither. We prove that it is impossible for us to know whether or not there is a god hence when someone comes along and says that they know the answer, we laugh at them.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
What do you get if you multiply six by nine ?
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Primordial Egg Inactive Member |
What do you get if you multiply six by nine ? The universe is indeed a bizarre place PE
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
That was pretty close to Arthur Dent's reaction
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Peter Member (Idle past 1478 days) Posts: 2161 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Joined: |
I think I understand the universe now ... oh darn! it just changed again!!!
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