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<blockquote data-quote="Grundle" data-source="post: 234291" data-attributes="member: 1978">To answer the original questions: no and no.&nbsp; I choose to &quot;believe&quot; as little as possible.&nbsp; NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!Given...* only one (dilligent) monkey* one typewriter (with inexhaustible ribbon &amp; paper)&nbsp;&nbsp; * and infinite timeOur simian friend will not only succeed in replicating War &amp; Peace, he'll also have recreated every other written work ever created and he'll have done so an infinite number of times.&nbsp; This is an undisputable fact of probability and the definition of infinity.What?!&nbsp; Not so my friend.&nbsp; This is a common mistake made when thinking of probabilities.&nbsp; In a random process ANY individual pattern is possible. The occurance of a particular pattern which might be recognizable or noteworthy (to a human mind) is no less likely then any other of the infinite number of possibilities.Aughhhh!!!The beauty of evolution is that it requires NO FAITH or BELIEF!!!!&nbsp; It is an explanation that ties together all of the facts.&nbsp; Is it the truth?&nbsp; It doesn't matter!!!&nbsp; The theory explains all the facts as they exist at the moment, and that is all a theory is supposed to do.&nbsp; Perhaps at some point in the future, it will be replaced by a better theory - just as Newtonian mechanics were superceded by Einstein's Relativity.&nbsp; But just as apples continue to fall at a constant rate of acceleration now as they did in Newton's day, the fundamental facts of evolution are with us to stay - regardless of what human being choose to &quot;believe&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grundle, post: 234291, member: 1978"] To answer the original questions: no and no. I choose to "believe" as little as possible. NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Given... * only one (dilligent) monkey * one typewriter (with inexhaustible ribbon & paper) * and infinite time Our simian friend will not only succeed in replicating War & Peace, he'll also have recreated every other written work ever created and he'll have done so an infinite number of times. This is an undisputable fact of probability and the definition of infinity. What?! Not so my friend. This is a common mistake made when thinking of probabilities. In a random process ANY individual pattern is possible. The occurance of a particular pattern which might be recognizable or noteworthy (to a human mind) is no less likely then any other of the infinite number of possibilities. Aughhhh!!! The beauty of evolution is that it requires NO FAITH or BELIEF!!!! It is an explanation that ties together all of the facts. Is it the truth? It doesn't matter!!! The theory explains all the facts as they exist at the moment, and that is all a theory is supposed to do. Perhaps at some point in the future, it will be replaced by a better theory - just as Newtonian mechanics were superceded by Einstein's Relativity. But just as apples continue to fall at a constant rate of acceleration now as they did in Newton's day, the fundamental facts of evolution are with us to stay - regardless of what human being choose to "believe". [/QUOTE]

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