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I know what it is. I wanted to see if anybody else out there did. Also, what do you think that the odds are of 1. How many monkeys, 2. Over what period of time, . Can type a COMPLETE UNABRIDGED dictionary (not including syntax, grammer, punctuation, spelling, idioms, and irony)? It is about the same odds as a tornado, going through a junk yard, and putting together a Rolls-Royce! Remember, master mathematicians consider anything 10 to the 50th power or more, to be an impossibility!

2006-10-23 00:33:33 · 2 answers · asked by Vincent Chenault 1 in Science & Mathematics Other - Science

The question is, "What are the odds of Jesus Christ fulfilling 38 prophecies out of 350 plus."-NOT what Jesus knew about Himself and NOT what Jesus was. The odds are real and they were set forth by the Dean Emeritus of Harvard of Princeton (I'm not quite sure which)) Peter Stoner. The thing about the monkeys is put in there to show that it is IMPOSSIBLE as far as humans are concerned but with God, all things are possible and IT DID HAPPEN! Lao Tzu, Buddha, Ghandi, Confucius, Marx, Lenin, Mohammed, (et al) none of them could even come close to this incredible feat! Showing that once again, the Bible is right and man is wrong.

2006-10-23 21:01:38 · update #1

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Pretty good given he is a fictional character written by people more than a century after the time he was purported to live.

Harry Potter will probably live up to the prophecy in his book, still just fiction though.

2006-10-23 06:37:35 · answer #1 · answered by corvis_9 5 · 0 0

There's a HUGE difference between monkeys randomly typing and someone deliberately following prophecies. Christ knew all the prophecies and knew whether he could or would fulfill them. His were not random acts.

Only if Christ did not know any of the prophecies would there even remotely begin to have statistical question. Even then, knowing that you're supposed to be the Messiah suggests that you would do and perform Messianic things that would have a high probability of fulfilling those unknown prophecies.

So the odds question is not appropriate for this situation. The odds question WOULD be appropriate in determining whether his acts were miracles, for example.

2006-10-23 22:49:49 · answer #2 · answered by arbiter007 6 · 1 0

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