If you dissassemble a watch, put pieces in bag, & shake up, wut r chances it will assemble and work?

Answer 1

The same probability that the universe, in particular earth just fell into perfect working order.
Everthing has a creator. Praise God!

Answer 2

You use the example of a watch precisely because it is complex. Take something simple, like a rock. You have no problem seeing how a rock can be formed by natural processes and there is nothing extraordinarily difficult about a rock. Yet if you had a specific rock. You could not get any random series of events to recreate that specific rock (the odds are the same as for a watch or a human being). You cannot start at the end of a long process and say that it is impossible to get here because of how unlikely it is to get those specific results. The process runs its course and at the end of it, whatever you have can look around and ask how it got there.

Answer 3

If I do that? No chance at all. If a watch repairman did it, probably the watch would work just fine again. This actually reminds me of something I read about apprentice mechanics at the Rolls Royce factory in the 1950's. It seems that part of their final test was that they were put in a room lit only by a photographic type safe light, and confronted with a crate and a set of tools. The crate contained 3 completely disassembled engines, all different makes. The apprentice had a fixed time to assemble all three and bench run them.

Answer 4

Very small but not zero.
Equally, if you put a working watch in a bag and shake it, what are the chances that it will stop working? Quite high depending on how hard and long you shake it.
Very interesting question regarding laws of probability and chaos theory but what does it have to do with religion and spirituality? In an infinite universe an infinite number of possible events will occur with an infinite number of possible results. None of the results will be impossible however so discussion of possibilities does not prove impossibilities.

Answer 5

Well, good thing Humans arnt like watches. Left to ourselves, the makeup of a human will likely form again. It's been done plenty of times in a lab.

A watch is rigid and not organic therefor unable to think for itself and put itself together due to lack of a "blue print" if you will.

Humans on the other hand are just offsprings of the smallest elements! Hydrogen and Carbon always mix together and therefor it is quiet clear that left to its own devices - a humanoid creature would form again in a couple of billion years.

Perhaps just as long as it would take for you to shake up that box of watch parts and finnaly get them all to fit in the right place hahaha.

Good arguement friend but A watch and a Human are far too different to compare the idea of creation.

Answer 6

About the sames chances if you dissemble a human put him in a sack and shake him up and expect him to work. So what is your silly point. that that is the way creation works? Chances are God couldn't get it to work by shaking any better than I could.

Answer 7

of course it will work... provided you haven't put it into a burlap bag and by "shake up" mean that you beat the bag over a concrete curb. It also helps if you know how to reassemble the watch as well.

Answer 8

statistically 0

Answer 9

how many peices? on each gear how many teeth? you do have a slight chance of this working but its all statistics, if your trying to proove/disproove something your not doing a good job.

Answer 10

Whoa..!!!.never in a million years! Watch look simple but if you do that, chances is that you will never get it work again!