the Bible or Quran or Bhagdvad Gita or the works of Shakespeare or any written book for that matter?
2006-10-26 10:16:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A trillion years? Perhaps. Given infinite time, yes. Every written work ever created, and an infinite amount of new ones. Given an infinite amount of time and chances, absolutely everything that is possible *will* happen, it must happen. Of course, you're unlikely to find immortal chimps and unbreakable typewriters.
2006-10-26 10:19:51 · answer #1 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There are 26 letters in the alphabet and I would guess that there are probably 1 million letters in the Bible or Qur'an. So each of those books has a 26 to the power of 1 million chance of appearing accidentally. That's a big number. Of course so is one trillion.
My odds are still on no, though the odd sentence would come out fully-formed from time to time. Most monkeys would just gnaw on the keys anyway...
2006-10-26 10:20:53 · answer #2 · answered by XYZ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How did Shakespeare get in there? As for the others, didn't take that many or that long the first time.
2006-10-26 10:42:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No , absolutely not . Equate it to the Big bang theory and the belief that this planet and all life was formed because of it. Take all the parts of a wrist watch......put them in a bag and shake it up for a million years .....Do you think you would ever produce a completed working watch from that!!!??
2006-10-26 10:33:11 · answer #4 · answered by J DUB 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bull,
Chimps would never agree to that type of work,
and even if they did,
who is going to have enough Bananas to pay them!
Chimps don't work for peanuts you know!!
2006-10-26 10:21:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not a chance in a quadrilllion years. It's about as likely as giving them seeds and expecting them to grow and cultivate a crop such as corn or cotton.
2006-10-26 10:35:34 · answer #6 · answered by jaguarboy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe a DNA code for a single-celled organism, that will eventually evolve into a human?
2006-10-26 10:19:40 · answer #7 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a mathematical certainty.
In fact if may well have been chimps that wrote the bible...one never knows.
2006-10-26 10:18:21 · answer #8 · answered by trouthunter 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nope. That is a myth.
2006-10-26 10:25:43 · answer #9 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋