To: balrog666
I think I covered that. If the one path to the existing situation observed has a probability of 1x10to the -100th power, and then if there are 1x10 to the 50th other paths possible, then the odds of any path showing is 1x10 to the -50th.
Please remember I don't grind any axes here. I find professions of faith based on anything but personal revelation unaesthetic.
142 posted on
12/29/2003 2:40:28 PM PST by
Iris7
("Duty, Honor, Country". The first of these is Duty, and is known only through His Grace)
To: Iris7; balrog666
I think I covered that. If the one path to the existing situation observed has a probability of 1x10to the -100th power, and then if there are 1x10 to the 50th other paths possible, then the odds of any path showing is 1x10 to the -50th. At the end of each path which has creatures, said creatures can all look back and say "Goodness--look at the odds against our particular outcome".
148 posted on
12/29/2003 3:03:05 PM PST by
donh
To: Iris7
I think I covered that. If the one path to the existing situation observed has a probability of 1x10to the -100th power, and then if there are 1x10 to the 50th other paths possible, then the odds of any path showing is 1x10 to the -50th. No, you didn't. As PatrickHenry and donh and jennyp (and everybody else) has explained, all paths aren't equal and that is where your hopes die.
159 posted on
12/29/2003 4:46:24 PM PST by
balrog666
(Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.)
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