http://www.biblebelievers.com/the-reason-why.html#Proving_God
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The president of the New York Scientific Society once gave eight reasons why he believed there was a God. The first was this: Take 10 identical coins and mark them 1 to 10. Place them in your pocket. Now take one out. There is 1 chance in 10 that you will get number one. Now replace it, and the overall chance that number two follows number one is not 1 in 10, but 1 in 100. With each new coin taken out, the risk will be multiplied by 10, so that the chance of ten following nine, is 1 in 10 000 000 000 or 10 billion. It seemed so unbelievable to me that I immediately took pencil and paper and very quickly discovered he was right. Try it yourself.
That is why George Gallup, the American statistician, says, "I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone – the chance that all its functions would just happen is a statistical monstrosity."
Surely no thoughtful person would wish to base their eternal future on a "statistical monstrosity"? Perhaps that is why the Bible says in Psalm 14:1 "The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God.'"
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2006-11-11 21:25:13 · 22 answers · asked by DREAMER 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ridiculous. The chances against evolution are much greater than the coin theory.
2006-11-11 22:36:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
You're thinking from the end results. Yes, the chance of human bodies happening as they are is vanishingly low. BUT the chance of something coming together that has life and intelligence ISN'T.
Think of it this way, each time you reach in your pocket you WILL get a coin. It might be 3, 6, 2, 8, 5, 1, 4, 9, 7, 10. Not the sequence you were forced to memorize in nursery. So what?
If it happened all over again, it would probably go somewhat differently. Humans probably wouldn't exist. Something else would.
I am thoughtful. That's why I do not wish to base the life that I know I have on the minute possibility that there is an afterlife which works just as the Christian Canon predicts. After all, the probability of that is statistically even less than life on earth. :-)
2006-11-12 05:40:38 · answer #2 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
George Gallup knew nothing about evolution. Things don't "just happen", they appear gradually as a result of thousands of generations of cumulative selection. There is a big difference between one step with a probability of 1/1000 and 500 steps with a probability of 1/2.
2006-11-12 07:13:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i will say with certainty that bible is wrong just like the person above mentioned. i agree that universe is not an accident, but bible invented that lie. no athiest said thta universe is an accident. now propogating lie is one of the main purpose of bible and bible believers.
universe was not created by god. that is a certainty. bible was proved wrong on every count by simple people through ages. still they do not accept the truth. the truth is god manifested himself as the universe, that's why i said it is not created. creation is the invention of pea brained authors of bible.
bible sees god and man as two different beings. that is the wrong stand bible taken, to cover up this insufficiency they go on inventing another lie. they do not accept that god can manifest himself as the universe. if they accept this, they know that the jesus is not the only son of god. the whole universe will be sons and daughters of god. thier theory of return of christ will fall flat. even if somone says there is no god, it makes no difference to god, because it is he who says that. so whatever psalms say is also out of ignorance. bible belives that ignorance is bliss. well bible is for ignorant fools.
people who area dhyanis have experienced what god is. yes, it cannot be explained, but have to be experienced. no one in christianity has this experience. come to east, the proof of god is visible everywhere. but not in bible. it is an outdated book.
do you know that god wants every being in this universe to merge into him. only a dhyani can achieve that, only a budha can become god. every man has that potential, that is the goal of man, dissolve into god. this simple truth bible and its authors did not understand. for 2000 years they have been propogating a lie.
Asatoma sadgamaya; Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya; mrityorma amritam gamaya.
Aum Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.
Raja Krsnan.
2006-11-12 11:40:41 · answer #4 · answered by Raja Krsnan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once you stopped giggling coins in your pocket, try to remember that statistics works in favor of a process that goes on forever, no matter how small the chances of something happening during one try, if you keep trying it again and again your chances of success are 100%. so is the big band theory, or the theory of evolution, you don't have to get the result at every shot, but if branes, in their 11 dimensions, exist and are not static, the chance of a "collision" of 2 or more branes, which can cause a "big bang" occurring at least once is 100%, and if evolution continues for hundreds of millions of years, and evolutionary changes occur almost every generation, the chance of each life evolving into other life is 100%.
there is no need of fictitious being to create and sustain these processes.
2006-11-12 05:42:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe you even bother to read the answers and are only interested in preaching.
I also do not believe that any president of any " New York Scientific Society" made any such statement. If there ever was a President of any such society. Neither the quote or the said society return any hits on a web search. If it was a valid quote why is there no reference to who said it, and why is there no " New York Scientific Society."
I think this is just more Baloney from your religious propaganda machine."
2006-11-12 05:35:09 · answer #6 · answered by Barabas 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Stupid argument that relies on ignorance of the topic. If Gallup really said that, he doesn't understand how human evolution works and is independant of "random chance." Granted, we don't understand how the universe came to be, but at the core or before the big bang it is possible a simple mathematical process built itself to create what we now see as laws and what not; this is why many experts are led to believe there is a multiverse where mathematical characteristics are different in all of them.
2006-11-12 05:47:46 · answer #7 · answered by Alucard 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Evolution ensures that all the bits fit together and work properly. If they didn't we wouldn't exist. As for the coins in the pocket, you could take one out which was not #1 put it back a thousand times and still not get #1. Don't get the point.
2006-11-12 05:34:25 · answer #8 · answered by Ted T 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yup :) your right. u'll probably get a lot of angry "well thats a lot of nonesense!"rs, and they will prolly vote my answer down but who cares. (y would they be in the religion section anyways?) even with my own meager studies of biology i have coem to the realization that the body is like a well oiled, perfect machine, made of livign flesh and breathing air, how the slightest error in reparing the dna in a single cell in a paper cut can cuase skin cancer, its quite amazing. but i didnt need that to tell me there is a God, or ur story, nice as it is. becuae i beleive in my heart.. even with out proof, and even if their wasnt any "proof" i would still belive, an i kinda have a feelin He's happy with me about that.
2006-11-12 05:32:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only problem with what you're saying is that it doesn't prove any particular god. It doesn't even prove how MANY gods did the creating. I could use that same example and say, "Yep, that's proof that Allah exists!" or "Yeah, that's proof that Zeus exists!" It's a nice demonstration but it really doesn't get you very far.
2006-11-12 05:30:45 · answer #10 · answered by . 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋