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To: Tribune7
Actually -- since we have an rough estimate of the size and age of the universe and provided for a very generous margin of error -- there isn't "countless trillions." Which is the point of the calculations.

Really? And what is the granulatity of the universe to which such calculations could be applied? How will you dismiss the problem that God plays dice below the quantum length?--thereby requiring you to branch the calculation and consider multiple possible previous universes at the each discrete timemark every time you step back? Assuming time comes in packages that are ultimately discrete.

Again, you are mistaking a random calculation for a definitive proof--the gulf between the two is beyond wide.

659 posted on 06/17/2002 12:34:32 PM PDT by donh
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To: donh
multiple possible previous universes

I'll grant you that abiogenesis is in the same scientific category as "multiple possible previous universes."

Again, you are mistaking a random calculation for a definitive proof--the gulf between the two is beyond wide.

Again, you are mistaking my claim that the odds of 1 to 10^340,000,000 for abiogenesis (which is a premeditated calculation, not a random one) is definitive. I'm just pointing out that it is far more rational to believe in God.

660 posted on 06/17/2002 7:35:12 PM PDT by Tribune7
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