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To: Tribune7; F16Fighter
You're not even close :-)

Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle placed the odds of unguided abiogenesis at 10^40000 to 1. (That's 40,000 zeros.)

This short script provides a better picture of the odds:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "1 in 10";
for ($i=1; $i < 40000; $i++) {
print "0";
}
The output is here.
158 posted on 12/11/2002 11:36:24 PM PST by scripter
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To: Tribune7; F16Fighter; scripter
You're all wrong. It's more like 1 in 1.2, IMHO. But click here for a good refutation of the 1040,000 odds canard.
164 posted on 12/12/2002 12:40:56 AM PST by jennyp
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To: scripter
LOL :-)
182 posted on 12/12/2002 9:34:08 AM PST by Tribune7
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