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To: jwalsh07
"I can see it now, monkey heads exploding all over the universe creating new universes with typing monkeys trying to recreate a Shakespearean Sonnett."

One of the points missed in this thought experiment is the power of the infinite.

We have people describing God as infinitely powerful, but they themselves do not appreciate what infinite means.

Infinite means unending. In an unending string of letters, numbers, characters and spaces, the works of Shakespeare do appear.

They appear because the string cannot end until they do; as well as every other combination and near-combination that can possibly come about.

34 posted on 11/03/2007 9:08:36 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Shake off all the fears & servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched/Jefferson)
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To: NicknamedBob
Sadly, mathematicians are constrained by the laws and dimensions of the universe, thus no infinite monkeys or infinite time and the monkey argument as a basis for explaining the complexity of both the universe and life in the realm of probability fails miserably.

God, of course, would have no such constraints which puts science and mathematicians at a certain disadvantage. Such is life!

Which is why there are some scientists who posit a multiverse where infinite time and infinite space keeps the monkeys banging out complexity by random chance at their lesiure.

Given infinite time, space and monkeys the mathematical proof that they will type a sonnet is pretty simple. Unfortunately we are stuck with finite limits while God isn't. I know, I know, it isn't fair that science has to deal with the laws, time and space that the Good Lord gave them but there it is anyway.

60 posted on 11/04/2007 11:21:37 AM PST by jwalsh07
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