and an infinite amount of time, then one of them would come up with the complete works of Shakespeare" My question is how many monkeys would it take to write a believable bible?
2007-08-17 00:50:06 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
sick girl - oh my. This one's a little bit over your head.
2007-08-17 01:09:03 · update #1
Around five, and half an hour's worth of time.
2007-08-17 00:53:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
About the same time to come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Remember they're not researching or developing the storyline(s), they're just producing a random collection of keystrokes that can be read or has meaning.
2007-08-17 07:59:38 · answer #2 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only 1. No matter how meaningless the typings of a monkey, if the words were sold as a bible, there would be true believers who would die for it. It does not matter if they can't understand the words, as evidenced by christians with their current bible.
2007-08-17 09:22:52 · answer #3 · answered by Fred 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mind you i don't buy in to the bible or religion but,that has to be the most flawed idea let me ask you this,if the monkeys don't speak English how can they right anything.the whole idea and premise behind your question is flawed, OK kids ill be turning the class back over to the Representative from the moral authority mrs ironbox:)
2007-08-17 07:56:08 · answer #4 · answered by anonomous 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I always heard it as "if you put 100 monkeys in front of a typewriter for 100 years, one of them will eventually type out "War and Peace".
Good question.
2007-08-17 07:55:18 · answer #5 · answered by Adam G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's no such thing as a believable bible, so by definition, it must be impossible for the monkeys.
PS. Of course in a Planet of the Apes movie...
2007-08-17 07:53:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
As history has proven, monkey must have written it, it does not make any sense to the majority of humans.
2007-08-17 07:54:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have a couple of questions...
Who made the typewriters?
And who would publish said works?
2007-08-17 07:55:52 · answer #8 · answered by Pooperific 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure that must be how they wrote the Bible.
AD
2007-08-17 07:54:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Considerably less.
2007-08-17 07:52:09 · answer #10 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 6⤊ 3⤋