Referencing your first response in twhitehead's Life thread; given all the conversations that could have taken place up until that thread, all the other posters that could have joined or left, all the technologies and competing sites that could have hindered this site's popularity etc...
What were the chances (lets only go back as far as the dawning of the internet) that a Life thread would be made in the spirituality forum of a correspondence chess site (namely this one!) for which (down to every typed character):
you forgot to add, mud water and a reducing atmosphere, oh and some lightning and a chance occurrence of something in the region of,
1X10^000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
is the response you would make?? 😕
18 Jan 12
Originally posted by Agerg1 in 50. Maybe even better odds than that if God wanted to help it along.
Referencing your first response in twhitehead's Life thread; given all the conversations that could have taken place up until that thread, all the other posters that could have joined or left, all the technologies and competing sites that could have hindered this site's popularity etc...
What were the chances (lets only go back as far as the dawning of the ...[text shortened]... 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000[/quote]
is the response you would make?? 😕
He might have wanted me to witness to these two JWs. For I already had
the chess knowledge and the knowledge of knowing the beliefs of the JWs.
18 Jan 12
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Originally posted by SuzianneApart from the occasional stress relieving (albeit otherwise completely pointless) pot-shot post at the likes of RJHinds I haven't really had chance to sink my teeth into any threads - too much unpaid overtime to be done!
Where you been, Agerg? Haven't been posting as regularly, I noticed.
18 Jan 12
Originally posted by AgergHehe, I hear you.
Apart from the occasional stress relieving (albeit otherwise completely pointless) pot-shot post at the likes of RJHinds I haven't really had chance to sink my teeth into any threads - too much unpaid overtime to be done!
I'm just now getting out of the heavy season in my job (I work for the Postal Service), so we'll have maybe a month of overtime left related to that and then back to normal. Good thing my overtime is paid. 😀
18 Jan 12
Originally posted by Agergless the chances of life having originated from non living matter dear Agers.
Referencing your first response in twhitehead's Life thread; given all the conversations that could have taken place up until that thread, all the other posters that could have joined or left, all the technologies and competing sites that could have hindered this site's popularity etc...
What were the chances (lets only go back as far as the dawning of the ...[text shortened]... 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000[/quote]
is the response you would make?? 😕
18 Jan 12
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Originally posted by robbie carrobieAssuming that instead of: 1X10^000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
less the chances of life having originated from non living matter dear Agers.
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
you meant something like:
[WORD TOO LONG] [WORD TOO LONG]
can\'t find superscript \"-\"
then your statement is demonstrably false. Indeed limiting ourselves to just lowercase letters of the alphabet then there are 26^(how many characters you typed) different posts you could have made here which is trivially greater than 10^(how many characters you typed) (and of course, greater than the number you seemed to have posted) - and moreover since you hold us to the belief (unwarranted) that life arose, from nothing, and completely randomly (such that no change in some collection/configuration of atoms were influenced by the configuration of any others) then I am allowed to play the same game and assume it is equally likely you could have made any other of those aforementioned 26^(how many characters you typed) posts. Take reciprocals now to deduce the chance of you making that post is far less than the chance you whimsically assert life originated from non-life. (Furthermore I've made no mention, here in this post, of all the other things that had to happen such that your post in the Life thread would happen!)
18 Jan 12
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Originally posted by SuzianneIf I got paid for all the hours I (had little choice but to) put in over Christmas and New Year to make progress, all alone, in a task that was doomed by my "colleagues" thousands of miles away I'd be doing rather well for myself on the money front! :]
Hehe, I hear you.
I'm just now getting out of the heavy season in my job (I work for the Postal Service), so we'll have maybe a month of overtime left related to that and then back to normal. Good thing my overtime is paid. 😀
18 Jan 12
Originally posted by Proper KnobI'd go with a baseless statement out of my backside anyday instead of baseless statement coiming out of someones mouth about something like life just happening from nothing. Lol.
Pulling baseless statements out of your backside is anything but 'common sense'.
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Originally posted by Agergah but dear Agers, you were unaware that the number of numerals was i fact a chance
Assuming that instead of: 1X10^000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
you meant something like:
[WORD TOO LONG] the other things that had to happen such that your post in the Life thread would happen!)
occurrence itself as i simply placed my finger on the zero and let is 'zing', until i
thought it was enough to demonstrate the mathematical improbability (i think
mathematicians hold that something ten to the power of fifty zeros as being almost
an impossibility)