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Probability of God

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crashfrog
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05-26-2004 2:30 AM 		Reply to: Message 18 by jacketsfan4life
05-25-2004 11:24 PM

The best description I heard about the actual chances of that happening are greater then the chances of a twister going through a garbage dump and leaving behind a fully functional 747.
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I'd like to see your math, please. What exactly are the odds of getting a 747 out of a junkyard? How many trials did you do?
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05-26-2004 3:26 AM 		Reply to: Message 21 by almeyda
05-26-2004 3:22 AM

Are you saying there is a chance of such an event?.
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No, but he seems to be, which is why I want to see his math. As far as I know, what he's talking about is impossible, which is why I thought it was an inappropriate anaolgy to describe an unlikely but possible event - spontaneous formation of polypeptides.
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If I told you that "the odds of you getting three heads in a row on coin tosses is the same as you flapping your arms and being able to fly", wouldn't you say I was wrong? Hell, I've gotten three heads in a row plenty of times. I've never flown by flapping my arms. It doesn't make sense to compare a possible event to an impossible one.
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05-26-2004 6:51 AM 		Reply to: Message 23 by AdminNosy
05-26-2004 6:44 AM

Firstly, it's a dead-end crank topic.
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Therefore I feel it's appropriate to shift a dead-end topic into a related topic. Since I'm still talking about probability, I'm still on topic.
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