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To: Fitzcarraldo
What you need to realize is that evolutionist's live in a world where plays are written by monkeys randomly banging on keyboards rather than writers. Since they know that the works of Shakespeare could statistically be produced by an infinite number of monkeys given an infinite amount of time with an infinite number of typewriters, they see no reason to go looking for Shakespeare. That Romeo and Juliet exists is not proof of Shakespeare but proof that the right monkey just happened to bang on the right keys at the right time in the infinite expanse of time. And if we lived in a universe full of monkeys banging away at typewriters and churning out the odd play every now and then, that wouldn't be an unreasonable assumption. The relgious believer wants to find "Shakespeare" among the monkeys because they can actually feel the presence of the writer past the monkeys. For that reason, they are unsatisfied by the explanation of infinite monkeys and, instead, seek to find the presence of the writer in the text. I don't think that's unreasonable, either. But you aren't going to understand the other side unless you understand their perspective. It's not going to make any sense from your perspective.
193 posted on 12/04/2005 8:24:21 PM PST by Question_Assumptions
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To: Question_Assumptions
"...Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice..."

Albert Einstein

195 posted on 12/05/2005 8:08:03 AM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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