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The Sex Life of 747 Aircraft

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ringo
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06-29-2007 12:37 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by NosyNed
06-29-2007 11:41 AM

I have a different take on the "tornado in a junkyard" analogy:
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Suppose we line up a million people outside the junkyard and let each one in for an hour at a time, to do whatever he wants. Even if none of them knows how to put a 747 together, certain parts will fit naturally with certain other parts.
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Under those circumstances, what are the odds that the result will be a 747?
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06-29-2007 1:53 PM 		Reply to: Message 6 by Taz
06-29-2007 1:18 PM

Tazmanian Devil writes:
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If you're trying to change this analogy to something more analogous to evolution, you're still missing natural selection.
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You take a lot of words to miss a point, don't you?
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My only point was that some parts will fit "naturally" together and that assemblies will "naturally" grow. (I guess I'm thinking of abiogenesis more than evolution.) A tornado in a goo-pond would have prevented life from forming too.
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