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To: SampleMan

[[You are wrong about probabilities.]]

no sir- imporbable becopmes impossible after the upper limits of probability have been breahced, (and this limit has been mathematically breahced by a very large margin i nthe argument for typing monkeys), and the reasons were explained in my previous post- please do keep insisting that an impossibility is nothign but an ‘imporbability’- if said enough time by you- perhasps someday, if typed enough, it will still be impossible- as I metnioned, even the argument for ‘imporbable’ being impossible ignores the FACT that mutaitons can not procude new non species specific informaiton- it simply ignores this fact and ASSUMES mutaitons could do somethign they simply are incapable of doing-


608 posted on 09/19/2009 9:59:53 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: CottShop
So how many times can I flip a coin coming up heads before it becomes absolutely, completely, stupendously impossible for it to come up heads again? I'm willing to accept the objective answer to that question even if you want to assume that I have not begun flipping the coin yet.

The entire point of my post appears to be lost on you. i.e. there is a point where everyone will agree that an improbability is a functional if not real impossibility, however, that point will vary from person to person. What one can then infer from my point is that it is therefore the improbability that should be shown, vice arguing the impossibility.

People who believe that matter has always existed or that it suddenly came from nothing without God's hand are unlikely be impressed with your definition of impossible. However, if one can statistically show that an occruence is extremely unlikely to occur on even one planet during the entire life of the known universe, then that to me seems more compelling than arguing that 1/x = impossible.

But I'm willing to accept that changing your mind on this is statistically improbable.

609 posted on 09/19/2009 10:45:33 AM PDT by SampleMan (Socialism enslaves you & kills your soul.)
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