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To: The Mike Device

If you are claiming that the random picking of 6 numbers out of fourty equals the random chance accumulation of molecules based on simple ionic bonds can create a single cell, let alone a single living cell complete with the means to eat, move, aspire, and reproduce...then you need to think some more.


30 posted on 02/14/2005 5:45:53 PM PST by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: RaceBannon

And don't forget, evolution is not random.


32 posted on 02/14/2005 5:49:50 PM PST by Rudder
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To: RaceBannon; Rudder
If you are claiming that the random picking of 6 numbers out of fourty equals the random chance accumulation of molecules based on simple ionic bonds can create a single cell, let alone a single living cell complete with the means to eat, move, aspire, and reproduce…

I am claiming no such thing sir. Let us review…….
In Post 28, you re-stated your opinion from your original post 17 (The one with the stupid animation) and I quote

This test, using intelligent beings using intelligent methods, trying to tell us things happened by chance??

This sentence, aside from being grammatically incorrect, seeks to imply that the hand of man, or the use of a complex machine somehow taints a truly random or “chance” happening. I see no mention of cellular biology or ionic bonds in the above statement do you? I thought not.

My reply in post 29 points out lightheartedly that a truly random outcome is indeed possible by men, using a man made machine. This is most evident where money is involved as in lottery number selection.

You seem to be asserting that a random outcome cannot be achieved with a modern man made device. How are the lottery numbers chosen then?

I admit, that this post does not speak directly to the problems with PRNGs and their lack of sufficient entropy to produce truly random outcomes however, the tone of my statement was simply to point out that the mere presence of man or machine does not necessarily remove all randomness from an experiment.

Your post 30 then expands the scope of the conversation in a transparent attempt to “flame” me.

If you are claiming that the random picking of 6 numbers out of forty equals the random chance accumulation of molecules based on simple ionic bonds can create a single cell, let alone a single living cell complete with the means to eat, move, aspire, and reproduce...then you need to think some more.

Subsequent banter in posts 32 and 33 seek to dismiss me as some kind of dullard and I assure you sir that this is not the case. I run a 4.2 Forty in the intelligence race and I doubt that you could run a 5 or better.

P.S. It’s Forty Not Fourty. There’s a spell button now. I suggest you use it.
P.P.S. Last I checked, my state lottery was six numbers out of Fifty Nine for overall odds of 1:45,057,474 so the seemingly simple act of picking these six numbers results in some pretty long odds. About the same odds as you ever having sex with a real woman.
P.P.S.S. You are a stupid-head.
48 posted on 02/15/2005 1:54:21 PM PST by The Mike Device (10 Megatons of fusion fun.)
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