Evolution and probability

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#101 Bashers79
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[QUOTE="Brainkiller05"]What? You're supposed to actually understand it before trying to disprove it.kneeha
Not trying to disprove it, I just want to understand the rationale behind believing a theory with extremely low probability.

Same question, but to the creationists.

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#102 GreySeal9
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I love evolution threads.

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#103 Iantheone
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We got lucky. No matter how unlikely something is, it will still happen eventually
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#104 Phaze-Two
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[QUOTE="kneeha"][QUOTE="Brainkiller05"]What? You're supposed to actually understand it before trying to disprove it.Bashers79

Not trying to disprove it, I just want to understand the rationale behind believing a theory with extremely low probability.

Same question, but to the creationists.

except creationism isn't a theory, its a hypothesis

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#105 chessmaster1989
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[QUOTE="Bashers79"]

[QUOTE="kneeha"] Not trying to disprove it, I just want to understand the rationale behind believing a theory with extremely low probability. Phaze-Two

Same question, but to the creationists.

except creationism isn't a theory, its a hypothesis

It's not really even a hypothesis, since a hypothesis has to be testable.

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#106 arbitor365
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creationists always show such a stunning amount of ignorance when it comes to concept of probability. Any given occurrence is infinitely improbable if you have an undefined variable and if no external factors are taken into consideration. Here is a little experiment that every creationist should take part in. Take a six sided die. roll it and write down the number. do this 250 times. examine the pattern. the probability of getting the exact pattern that you arrive at is beyond what is fathomable by our human minds. And yet, this occurrence still happened. Ask yourself why that is and ask yourself why innocuous probability measures have no relevance to evolution or any other scientific theory.