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Author Topic:   Evolution is random! Stop saying it isn't!
Straggler
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Message 4 of 99 (414978)
08-07-2007 1:21 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Doddy
08-07-2007 4:51 AM


Is anything random
Is anything truly and completely random? In the sense that creationists usually mean it?
Can probablility always provide a pattern given enough throws of the metaphorical dice?
Imagine a random number generator generating numbers between 1 and 10. After a million numbers had been generated you would probabilistically expect to see each individual number represented a roughly equal number of times. This is not a random result. It is a result predicted by the laws of probability.
I have genuinely been in a debate with IAJ where he claimed that quantum theory was in agreement with creationism because it was NOT random whilst evolution was fundamentally impossible because it IS random.
So basically creationists will define random to mean whatever their argument requires.

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