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To: DannyTN
The sentence has 28 characters in it, so the probability is (1/27)28 or 1.2 x 10–40. That is about one chance in 12,000 million million million million million million! You would want a lot of monkeys typing very fast for a long time if you ever wanted to see this happen!

My God the writer COMPLETELY missed the point of Dawkins' example.

Cumulative selection is the key to understanding evolution. No one in their right mind (except creationists) argues that proteins and other macro-molecules arose in one step.

Evolution by its very definition postulates that these processes occured gradually.

Why is this simple concept so repeatedly misunderstood?

22 posted on 02/17/2005 3:42:44 PM PST by RightWingNilla
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To: RightWingNilla
Why is this simple concept so repeatedly misunderstood?

Because the creationist manure-mills keep spewing mega-tons of disinformation about it.

134 posted on 02/18/2005 6:25:17 AM PST by Ichneumon
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