Charles Munroe
Member (Idle past 3665 days) Posts: 40 From: Simi Valley, CA USA Joined: 09-07-2003
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Message 29 of 31 (54788)
09-10-2003 4:05 PM
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Reply to: Message 1 by Selectric III 06-02-2003 8:45 AM
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Flawed Math
The problem with the Swiss watch, the 747 Jet and the Monkeys on a Typewriter stories, supposedly showing the impossibility of evolution, is that the mathematical logic is flawed. These supposed arguements for the improbablity of evolution start with a very complexed situation, which has nothing to do with the problem, and create a situation that yes will have an extremely remote chance of happening; but that is not the way the problem should be set up. The answer lies in understanding probability and properly setting up the equation. Take the coin problem. If I flip a coin ten times and it come up heads every time what are the odds it will come up heads the 11th time? Exactly 50/50 just like the all the other times. It is necessary to also take in to consideration that in the primordal soup there were not genetic material coming together all at once to form the first prion that could reproduce but various parts coming together in various areas over a vast amount of time. Think of a throw of the dice that might have only a 1 chance in a million of happening and you having the opportunity to throw the dice 100 million times. Your chances of making your number are excellent. Study up on your math and avoid the Creationist comic book math and you will have a better understanding of evolution. Evolution, incidently, does not deny God. It says nothing on the subject. It is Creationist that wrongly infer that Evolution eliminates God. Creationist, those that are sidetracked in a controversey of their own making that contributes nothing of a positive nature to the Gospel of Jesus Christ but do interpret the Bible in a manner that makes it appear about as reliable as a comic book. Concentrate on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and forget the Creationist nonsense and you will find that your religion functions very nicely.
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