Posted on 05/25/2005 3:41:22 AM PDT by billorites
Is dropping a pin on equally spaced parallel lines a random mechanism?
Three rules for improving your survival fittness (due to Nelsen Algren):
1. Never play cards with a man called Doc.
2. Never eat at a place called Mom's.
3. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Now that's an interesting "thing". Maybe Ichy could explain its ancestry and evolution?
At first I was going to say that some things are beyond even my ken (not to mention my Barbie), but then I realized that it clearly must be a relative to the RhinoCycle.
If it is to be as it is, is he to go on, or to be in on it?
Why did Hemmingway's chicken cross the road? To die. In the rain.
I've been told that my participation in the action in question makes it impossible to avoid the stated outcome.
Is dropping a pin on equally spaced parallel lines a random mechanism?
Only someone who was a real Buffon would think to make such a suggestion. He should be needled repeatedly.
Yeah in a way it is I think. The Bible even states that we have that freedom to believe or not. Believing is to accept something as being the truth. It's saying something is real, genuine but whether we choose to believe it as truth is certainly a matter of personal choice.
There's also a variant with a camel that ends with, "yeah, but *we* just ride it into town..."
(You really need to rewrite that sentence; however, I'll presume you are referrin to Buffon. Note that the act of dropping the pin may be independent of whether it lands on lines or polka dots.)
Maybe. Depends on the height of the pin release and the elasticity of both the pin and whatever the lines are drawn on.
Doc stuck those on me too, but here's a couple more:
1. Never trust a man with no neck.
2. Never pet a dog that's on fire.
DS, you want to start a collection?
Science doesn't employ burning at the stake to make it's scientific arguements. That would be as opposed to the Catholic church in Galileo's day.
Your understanding of the studies, effects, and trial of Galileo is skewed from the inside. You would rather not admit that a.) the church was in large part a champion of science at the time, and b.) science was clinging to Aristotelian dogma like most of the rest of the world.
I understand this perfectly well. It has little bearing on the big issues in the Trial of Galileo as conventionally understood by conventional historians.
The Trail occured because the inquisition did not want the ideas in his book spread around--not because Galileo offended their sensibilities, even if a couple of recent books, largely by Catholic apologists, say otherwise.
This is ridiculous, paper-thin, historical revisionism.
Ichy, you need to get a life than I do 8>{
Look, all I can do is repeat what I said ---I don't know how, but I think it's possible that evolution, at least in some form, can co-exist with creationism. I truly think God has worked this out so one doesn't have to exclude the other.
Quote mining Damon Runyon would probably be more fruitful.
I'll take that answer as yes. And the probability of the pin falling on a line when the length of the pin is equal to the distance between the parallels is what?
There is exactly the same amount of courtroom quality evidence for the theory that God created the heavens and earth, as for the Norse theory of God's vs. Giants now buried deep in the earth. And about the same measure of respectable second-hand witnesses. Furthermore, plenty of Greeks would have been ready to step up to the microphone and swear their certain knowledge derived from no courtroom-quality evidence whatsoever, just like you. Why should I take you any more seriously than I take them?
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