Saturday, December 17, 2011

Would anyone like to see me destroy a typical Creationist argument?

I am referring to the low probability of abiogenesis argument. The answer is Bernoulli Trials (google it). Take a binary random variable (here, the probability of life forming on it's own) that has a very small chance of success (let's say 10^-100). It turns out mathematically that the probability of the unlikely event occurring once is quite large when the experiment is repeated a number of times equal to the reciprocal of the probability of success (enter the lottery enough times, you win right?). And of course it only needs to happen once, since evolution will take over (what's funny is that they are acknowledging abiogenesis when they use this argument). Well what do you think?|||And who created Bernoulli?





I never saw the universe compared to a lottery!





As for your initial question... my answer is, "NO!"








Have a blessed day.

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