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To: EsotericLucidity
Secondly, even if we grant that all beginning conditions are equally probable, then it becomes like tossing a bucket of pennies off the Sears Tower. Any resulting configuration of pennies will be astronomically improbable to the point of absurdity, yet it is certain there will be one. Kinda makes the number flogging look less impressive.

You're off the mark here, guy. Study up on entropy. The actual starting condition was a very precisely ordered one, which was highly distinguishable from almost all of the other possibilities. If the universe had not started in this highly unusual state of orderedness, we wouldn't be possible!

145 posted on 05/29/2002 4:02:57 PM PDT by yendu bwam
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