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joz
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Message 31 of 49 (26491)
12-13-2002 9:57 AM
Reply to: Message 29 by John
12-12-2002 10:37 PM


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Originally posted by John:
Think of trying to calculate the probabilities for getting a 1 when you roll dice. The catch is that you don't know how many dice there are, how many sides are on the dice, what numbers are on the sides, what surface you are going to roll the dice on.... Get it? Yet this is what the "chances for abiogenesis" calculations are like.
And that the dice have already been rolled and at least once a one came up (otherwise you wouldn`t be here to work out the probability of a one coming up).......

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