Posted on 01/28/2005 4:28:41 PM PST by metacognative
Does "E" do this??
I guess NO one buys "E" material......
I'm glad that FINALLY someone has explained it!
Pretty much, yeah. Reality by definition contains its own 'solution' whether you know it or not.
I think that means you agree that any sequence is as likely to occur as any other sequence, even the sequence I just tossed had that same probability, right?
Zeno's paradox hasn't anything to do with this.
Since NO 'true' Evo will touch the third rail, why do we NOT know where all of this 'first life' came from anyway??
That's a HELL of a lot of biomass; of some kind or another.
It just keeps getting re-cycled.
Dang!
I didn't know that I assumed #2.
HMMmmm....
I've never SEEN one of these niches that "E's" talk about.
Where are they hiding?
But in a single string, what is the probablity of getting a HH before a TT or a HT or a TH? (It's been answered on one of these threads already; no fair peeking.)
(Think KUDZU vine
Didn't Larson do this already??
We are not ignoring you. Just waiting for you to catch up.
We used to be able to, but I think that has been removed from FR.
If you mean abiogenesis (or whatever the 'first cause') I can tell you that the reason I don't 'touch' it is because I don't find it of any great practical importance. Evolution is profoundly crucial to the advancement of modern science and the improvement of humanity; the initial origin of life borders on a metaphysical question of little relevancy at least at this juncture.
From a practical standpoint, defining the origin of life may have some tangential importance in terms of theology, but either possible answer really tells you very little of value in the grand scheme of things (though many would pretend it does). The practical elements of theology may far more readily be addressed in other contexts, assuming that's the desired inquiry.
BTW, the biomass does not merely get 'recycled' from some original reservoir established at the dawn of life. If that's what you're implying, then that's a ridiculous statement. The organic biomass is continually being synthesized at various base levels of the ecological hierarchy.
Rigged? Maybe, but VERY possible!
1,125,899,906,842,620 to 1 for 50 in a row.
Now then...
...what's the odds that the next 'mutation' (of ANY species) will be 'advantageous'?
(1) the chance of getting one completely specific string involves a factorial computation;And, to stroke myself one more time, misunderstanding item (3) to involve item (1) above involves my "fallacy of incorporating the continuum."
(2) the chance of getting any string at all is 100%; and
(3) at any step along the way, the odds of getting H or T is 50%.
You're ignoring the apriori assumtion. That the coin and the toss are not rigged.
Why are Christians on this board always the ones to bear false witness ...
Exactly how can a question be false witness?
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