Originally Posted by
Silfir
"Classical" 6000 years creationism always reminds me of the Church of "Last Thursday"ism (which champions the belief that the world was actually created last Thursday, and all evidence pointing to the contrary, including your own memories of the past, has been planted by God in order to confuse you about the truth). Both make equally little sense.
They are wrong. The world was created last Tuesday.
Originally Posted by
gut
> with a time frame of several billion years to work with,
> there's plenty of room for a whole lot of coincidences
A few of those coincidences, yeah, but start chaining those
things together and your %'s start going down the drain. It
wouldn't just take a few coincidences to explain order
coming from chaos, it would take absurd chains.
Let's remember that the universe is infinite (or at least VERY large.) So if the chance of humans appearing on one planet over a certain period of time is only one in a billion, the chance of humans NOT appearing on ANY planet is:
one minus (one divided by one billion) to the power of infinite
=(1 - 0,000000001) ^∞
= 0,999999999 ^∞
= 0,999999999 * 0,999999999 *0,999999999 *0,999999999 *0,999999999 *0,999999999 * (and so on....)
= 0,0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000... (and so on...)
That is, there is practically zero chance for humans NOT appearing. This is, of course, assuming the universe is infinite, but any size large enough will do.
You hit Andor Drakon, the ElDeR cHaOs GoD, and severely wound him.
The greater balor summons some help!
The ratling duelist disarms you. You drop your blessed Trident of the Red Rooster (+36, 6d12+18) [+12, +12]. It flies to the west.
Andor Drakon, the ElDeR cHaOs GoD, picks up the blessed Trident of the Red Rooster (+36, 6d12+18) [+12, +12].
Andor Drakon, the ElDeR cHaOs GoD, wields the blessed Trident of the Red Rooster (+36, 6d12+18) [+12, +12].