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To: Southack
I've just rolled a coin 1000 times. I've included the sequence below. By my calculation, the odds are 1 in ~10^300 against this exact sequence occurring. That's so unlikely there's just no way it could have occurred on its own - I mean isn't that more than the number of baryons in the universe? Clearly some divine intervention has occurred, right?

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THHTHHHTHTHTTHHHHTTHHTHHTHTTTTHHTTHTHHHHHHTTHTHTTH
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THHHHHTHHHTTHTTHHHHHTTHHTTTTHHHHHTTTTTTTHTTHHTTTHH
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Now, have I got the mode of the disproof right?
636 posted on 04/08/2002 1:05:10 PM PDT by edsheppa
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To: edsheppa
Duh, I meant flipped a coin of course.
637 posted on 04/08/2002 1:06:15 PM PDT by edsheppa
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To: edsheppa
"I've just rolled a coin 1000 times. I've included the sequence below. By my calculation, the odds are 1 in ~10^300 against this exact sequence occurring. That's so unlikely there's just no way it could have occurred on its own - I mean isn't that more than the number of baryons in the universe? Clearly some divine intervention has occurred, right?" - edsheppa

No. The mathematical odds of your sequence occuring are 1 in 1. Perhaps you meant to say that the mathematical odds of that sequence re-occurring are 1 in 10^300, but then again you haven't claimed to have tried to duplicate your feat.

Naturally, such a feat does not require divine intervention, merely endless repetition. Nice straw man, though. Most Darwinists are even less transparently intellectually dishonest than that, after all...

638 posted on 04/08/2002 1:10:54 PM PDT by Southack
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To: edsheppa
By Jove! I do believe you've rolled the sequence for uridine diphosphate N-aceylgalactosamine!
639 posted on 04/08/2002 1:17:07 PM PDT by Nebullis
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