Google| Subject | Re: Queen mother (of Britain) has died |
| From | Russ |
| Date | 2002-04-09 20:37 (2002-04-09 20:37) |
| Message-ID | <20020409143708.10628.00001135@mb-fo.aol.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | Joy |
| Followups | paulh (24m) |
In article <29ff3ad6.0204091002.a6dacc8@posting.google.com>, queen_yoj@hotmail.com (Joy) writes:
JoyYou have to come up with some way to not bump into things.
"g.skinner" <nomail@nomail.co.uk>wrote:Looking at a building, I don't need to be able to touch/smell/see an architect to know that there was one. My eyeball is infinitely more complex, and Darwin himself admitted that the formation of the eye through natural selection seemed highly absurd. (Something like "If you didn't have photosensitive cells, how would you know about light? If you didn't know about light, why would you develop photosensitive cells?")Why?I was wondering... does anyone believe that a god, or someone created the universe?/Yep.
Anyhow, middle school mathematics teaches that if the probability of one thing occuring is slim, then the probability of it *not* happening is high. And the chance that the functions of the human body just came together and *happened* is, as George Gallup so nicely said, a statistical monstrosity. So probability-wise, a Creator has a fairly good chance of existing.I heard a funny analogy. Imagine taking apart a laptop computer - component by component, screw by screw, chip by chip. Put all the pieces in a cardboard box and shake it up. Then dump everything on the floor.
So, well... that's why I believe it. I might as well believe the theory with the higher probability. <shrug>
What are the chances of the pieces landing on the floor altogether as a working laptop computer, even given trillions and trillions of opportunities to shake the box and throw the contents on the floor?
Russ
2002-03-30-
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