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To: hripka
Just STOP and sit down, wherever you are and LOOK. Everywhere you look, there is order, at an almost unimaginable level. Everything in your room was placed there. Did it just appear? Did it self-organize?

This would appear to be an appeal to incredulity fallacy.

If someone believes in evolution, have them flip a coin 50 times for me, and see if you get 50 heads in a row.

The theory of evolution has relevance neither to the current discussion nor to flipping a coin 50 times.

The odds of the world happening with all of its order is Many Many times that.

Please reference the calculations that you used to derive a probability greater than the probability of receiving heads on 50 coin flips.
191 posted on 10/19/2006 9:59:52 AM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio
The theory of evolution has relevance neither to the current discussion nor to flipping a coin 50 times.

The title of this thread is 'Is God dead? Atheism finds a market in U.S,' I am trying to show that for life/order to exist, there has to be an intelligence behind it, i.e. God is not dead.

Please reference the calculations that you used to derive a probability greater than the probability of receiving heads on 50 coin flips.

50 heads in a row equals odds of 1 to 5.63 times 10 to the 14th power. (I hope I figured that correctly.) Your body by itself contains 100 trillion cells (100 million million or 100,000,000,000,000) or 10 to the 14th power, much less the high complexity within each cell, much less the complexity of the entire ecosystem.

I have a list in front of me describing 47 separate physical processes, all of which have have to be set just right, or life would not exist, from physical constants, to solar system position, to earth position, to earth composition, etc.

The previous paragraphs have over 150 words. They weren't random. (Intelligent??) The 1000 monkeys banging on a typewriter theory can't account for your questions or my words.

392 posted on 10/20/2006 8:55:51 PM PDT by hripka (There are a lot of smart people out there in FReeperLand)
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