Alasdair
Member (Idle past 5749 days) Posts: 143 Joined: 05-13-2005
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Message 43 of 63 (301400)
04-05-2006 11:01 PM
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Reply to: Message 42 by Faith 04-05-2006 8:38 PM
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Re: Time and Intent
When you pass the random chance of mutation through the non random filter of natural selection, you can easily get order. Go and grab yourself a bucket of 100 pennies. Pour them out on the table. Take all the pennies that land "tails" up and pour them again. Within 10 pourings you'll have 100 pennies all heads up. By random chance alone, that has a chance of .5^100 or .000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 789 of happening - not going to happen in other words. Hope this clears things up.
This message is a reply to: | | Message 42 by Faith, posted 04-05-2006 8:38 PM | | Faith has replied |
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