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Uocom · 08-03-2003, 09:59 AM

"You're right, a one and two chance each time, but in order to address combined probability you have to multiply independent probabilities. So for the flipping of the coin 10 thousand times and only getting heads the probability for this is (1/2)^(10,000). A very small number."

I don't know why Creationists continue to use this argument. Basically, the amount of possible "things" that could have happened is high enough to be infinity. There is a 1 in a high number chance of anything happening.... Our evolution wasn't the only possible thing that could have happened. What you are saying is the same as saying since there is an INCREDIBLY small chance of my genes ending up like they did, I must not exist. And it is the same thing. There are many others ways I could have ended up though. Evolution could have followed a different path. Open your mind and realize that even though humans can't comprehend senses outside the kind we have, or a different kind of life, doesn't mean it isn't possible. Also, evolution is selective, not random. There is a higher probability of animals that are more genetically fit surviving, and as a result, new more complex and efficient life forms arise. Why are apes still alive? It's call isolation, and the fact that animals evolve to adapt to their environments. This is key. If a species spreads itself out in two different environments, the path of evolution each group follows will be different, and result in two different species after millions of years. It really makes plenty of sense. So much sense that to deny it takes place or is at least very possible is quite illogical. How could someone choose the accounts of the Bible over that?

08-03-2003, 09:59 AM	#187 (permalink)
Uocom Upright	"You're right, a one and two chance each time, but in order to address combined probability you have to multiply independent probabilities. So for the flipping of the coin 10 thousand times and only getting heads the probability for this is (1/2)^(10,000). A very small number." I don't know why Creationists continue to use this argument. Basically, the amount of possible "things" that could have happened is high enough to be infinity. There is a 1 in a high number chance of anything happening.... Our evolution wasn't the only possible thing that could have happened. What you are saying is the same as saying since there is an INCREDIBLY small chance of my genes ending up like they did, I must not exist. And it is the same thing. There are many others ways I could have ended up though. Evolution could have followed a different path. Open your mind and realize that even though humans can't comprehend senses outside the kind we have, or a different kind of life, doesn't mean it isn't possible. Also, evolution is selective, not random. There is a higher probability of animals that are more genetically fit surviving, and as a result, new more complex and efficient life forms arise. Why are apes still alive? It's call isolation, and the fact that animals evolve to adapt to their environments. This is key. If a species spreads itself out in two different environments, the path of evolution each group follows will be different, and result in two different species after millions of years. It really makes plenty of sense. So much sense that to deny it takes place or is at least very possible is quite illogical. How could someone choose the accounts of the Bible over that?