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Originally Posted by boxcar
As I said previously, slickster, we weren't discussing any particular aspect of the universe (such as a mountain) but rather the very long string of constants that are very finely tuned in order for this planet to support life. You''re comparing apples with oranges. Many non-believing scientists believe the improbability of all these constants occurring is so huge that they assign 0.00 chance that all those constants were just accidents or coincidences. And the by the way, the number of those constants is over 10 times greater than getting ten straight heads or tails to come up in coin tosses. The improbability number is so astronomically high it would dwarf your billions of years needed for a successful series of ten consecutive coin tosses. Some scientists have reckoned that the number is so high it would exceed the estimated number of atoms in the universe.
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I'm not comparing apples with oranges. I'm trying to explain, against all odds of you understanding, that whatever the probability of an event occurring, as time goes by the likelihood of that event occurring is higher, even though the probability doesn't change. Hence the coin flip example.
Obviously, no matter what the probability, it happened. At that point, the probability became 100%. As an analogy, if a horse is 100-1 before a race, once it wins the probability becomes 100%. In other words, the probability of an event is only relevant until it happens. Your point about the scientists is totally irrelevant because it happened.
And no matter what the probability of life evolving on earth, it was a higher probability than the Genesis story, especially given the physical evidence within the universe. You'll never believe that, but you have zero, nil, nada zilch evidence for your story except a book that is countered by every measurement of the universe that science has made. It makes as much sense as believing airplanes fly because there is a guy up there with a string holding it up.
We all love that you reference "scientists" without one reference. Are they the same guys who think climate change is a Chinese hoax?
