2007-03-19 12:55:56 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, but it's a pointless question. Quite apart from the fact that you can't have an infinite number of monkeys, what they would actually produce would be (say) Romeo and Juliet absolutely perfect, plus Romeo and Juliet with one character wrong, plus Romeo and Juliet with two characters wrong, and so on ad infinitum. In other words, it's true but meaningless. All the secrets of the universe are somewhere in Pi, but you try finding them...
2007-03-19 13:00:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Eventually
2007-03-19 12:58:47 · answer #2 · answered by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The monkeys cannot write Shakespeare, it is not in them. Anyone who says yes is basing it on a ' belief '.
Monkeys at the Zoo constantly see people walking upright, why don't they mimic it, or even master is?
2007-03-19 13:07:07 · answer #3 · answered by The Angry Stick Man 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
yes. It might take 10 to the billionth power attempts, however. It would take them far fewer attempts to make a recognizable word. They could even nail that on their first try. In a few thousnand tries they might even get a grammatically correct sentence.
Funny how "order" and "design" can spring forth at random, huh?
2007-03-19 13:01:44 · answer #4 · answered by Skippy 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
This already happened - if evolution is true. William is a descendant of a common ancestor to the monkeys isn't he?
2007-03-19 13:00:39 · answer #5 · answered by awayforabit 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2007-03-19 12:58:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
According to a classic Bob Newhart routine, what you'd eventually get is:
"To be or not to be, that is the gzoorunmplaattt...."
2007-03-19 13:04:28 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes, there's an interesting math problem about that.
Read George Gamow's book 1,2,3...infinity.It's in the first 30 pages. Really neat stuff.
2007-03-19 12:59:07 · answer #8 · answered by Jedi 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Only if there was a way to gradually eliminate repititions of mistakes. See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2SVMKZhV2g&mode=related&search=
Not that I think any of you Creationists will bother, but I post links anyway.
2007-03-19 13:20:44 · answer #9 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Statistically, yes. Practically, no.
2007-03-19 12:58:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋