For example, if you shuffle a deck of cards, the chances of them being in a particular order is on the order of 1 in 10 to the 71st. So, if you're looking at the cards, and realize that they are, indeed, in a particular order (they have to be in SOME order), are you going to tell me that it didn't happen? That they are not, in fact, in some order?
What are the chances that you would be born? Pretty damn unlikely, considering all the factors involved in bringing you, specifically, into existence. Does that mean it could not have happened?
Probability is useful for making predictions about the future. It has no use whatsoever in making predictions about things that already happened. To say that life is TOO UNLIKELY to have emerged is just retarded, because it obviously did emerge, now didn't it?
2006-12-10 14:31:52 · 4 answers · asked by abram.kelly 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank you, you put this very well. I think some people don't quite get that argument, and this is a very good explanation of it.
2006-12-10 14:34:39 · answer #1 · answered by Snark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The question of life emerging is a given. it is how it emerged that is in question. Weather it was a creation or the results of evolution. xx
2006-12-10 22:39:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
possibility vs probability.....
2006-12-10 22:37:40 · answer #3 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it was created.
2006-12-10 22:37:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋