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To: Ichneumon
Proof (which you will choose to ignore of course)

1. To make a mathematical formula of any kind takes intelligence. Show me a pattern in nature that is not complex ( fractals, DNA )
2. The simplest way to demonstrate statistical probability is to flip a coin. Heads or Tails ?
only problem is it takes someone to flip the coin.
3. First Law of Physics.
Debate over , you lose
115 posted on 04/02/2004 11:18:30 PM PST by Freesofar
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To: Freesofar
1. To make a mathematical formula of any kind takes intelligence. Show me a pattern in nature that is not complex ( fractals, DNA )

Drop a pile of rocks on the ground. I'll bet you the mathematical formula that's required to describe the positions of the rocks will not be simple. (They won't line up in a nice neat row, evenly spaced, which would make for a simple equation.) Are there angels whose job it is to make sure they don't line up exactly?

OTOH, if you bring simple organic molecules together in certain ways and expose them to a hot bath rich in minerals such as iron sulfides & inorganic clays, more complex molecules form, and even link up into chains. Pretty cool, if you ask me!

2. The simplest way to demonstrate statistical probability is to flip a coin. Heads or Tails ? only problem is it takes someone to flip the coin.

Unless an earthquake shakes the table & the coin drops to the ground. So?

Look - utterly complex weather systems get created every day on Earth. They're so complex, it takes supercomputers to describe them! So are there angels whose job... ?

119 posted on 04/02/2004 11:42:42 PM PST by jennyp (http://crevo.bestmessageboard.com)
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To: Freesofar
Proof (which you will choose to ignore of course)

Wrong *again*.

1. To make a mathematical formula of any kind takes intelligence.

And this has *what* do with evolution, please? Evolution is not about the "making of mathematical formulas". It's about changes in organisms across generations. Where did you get the impression that it was about scribbling equations on the blackboard or something?

Show me a pattern in nature that is not complex ( fractals, DNA )

The rotation of the earth is a pattern in nature that is not complex. (Are you actually going anywhere with this?)

2. The simplest way to demonstrate statistical probability is to flip a coin. Heads or Tails ? only problem is it takes someone to flip the coin.

You're clearly unfamiliar with the natural random flipping of polar molecules in a gas (for just one example), which takes place just fine without "someone to flip the coin". Back to school with you.

3. First Law of Physics.

Nice noun phrase -- going anywhere with it?

Debate over , you lose

I revise my estimate downward: ten?

135 posted on 04/03/2004 4:08:55 AM PST by Ichneumon
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