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To: anthraciterabbit
" That's not the problem here. "

That's exactly the problem. Creationists who haven't a clue about what evolution is, or how to apply probability.

"The problem is biologists who don't know anything about mathematics or probability or logic and who have therefore ended up trying to defend a worthless atheistic ideological doctrine (evolution) which basically stands everything we know about probability and logic on their heads."

How so? In what way is evolution going against probability and logic? Please be specific.
422 posted on 11/09/2005 5:05:07 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
How so? In what way is evolution going against probability and logic? Please be specific.

For well known reasons, having even one complex creature arise via combinations of mutations and "natural selection" would be a probabilistic miracle, i.e. an absolutely zero probability event come to pass.

The problem is that a reasonable person might could buy off on some sort of a theory which demanded one such probabilistic miracle in the whole history of the universe but evolution requires that every creature which ever walked, swam, or flew on, under, or over the Earth arise in such fashion, which is basically an endless sequence of probabilistic miracles. That basically stands everything we know about modern mathematics and probability theory on their heads.

The Earth is commonly supposed to be three or four billion years old and the universe itself about 20 billion years old. Nonetheless entirely reasonable calculations have shown that even if there was such a thing as mutation and selection creating our present biosphere from inorganic materials (hint, there isn't such a thing), it would demand quadrillions or quintillions of years.

One statement of the actual time frames demanded for evolution is here.

426 posted on 11/09/2005 6:12:13 PM PST by anthraciterabbit
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