Hey I'm the big bang, I exploded out of absolutely completely nothing. Now I'm the universe and the big bang was a huge messy explosion but somehow I have great universal and earthly laws that just seem to work. Even though the chance of the Earth becoming this way is the same chance to win millions of dollars in the lottery almost everyday, it was just luck. Now I just produced a cell out of nowhere! So here I am on earth with my other cell friends but some of them are weaker and they died off. I grew and the next day I sprouted legs and now I'm a human! Isn't that neat?
Nice strawman
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ok so it went from you are the big bang, then the universe, then a cell, then a walking animal, then a human? neat
"Even though the chance of the Earth becoming this way is the same chance to win millions of dollars in the lottery almost everyday, it was just luck."
Exactly. Now quit whining, shut the hell up and get over it, Mr. Big bang!
I am a deck of cards. Then someone picked a random card and got five of spades. The chance of that is only 1 in 52. Thus the pick wasn't random.
That, or the entire deck was five of spades.
"Even though the chance of the Earth becoming this way is the same chance to win millions of dollars in the lottery almost everyday"
Someone does win the lottery almost every day. Ergo, you fail
Hey! I'm God! I've just always existed and just seem to work. After a long eternity I suddenly find myself bored and create a world.
Yeah, that makes much more sense.
Hey, I'm a straw man. The Fundies created me out of thin air when backed into a corner during a debate. Now I'm being paraded around on the internet, and even though I'm completely ridiculous and nowhere close to the truth, some people actually believe that I am what liberals and atheists believe in.
You were a cell, fucknut. Well, rather a combination of two cells. Those multiplied, shaping your body, and, well, here you are. In all your stupidity.
Yep, with that much straw you could provide bedding for a whole barn of horses.
Now your lunch break is over so get off the Internet and start flipping burgers again.
Yeah, that really is a nice Strawman.
I know very little about chance and probability, but isn't the chance of something that has already hapened 1:1?
Not explode; expand.
Why are places well known to be rife with children (WoW, POD Warrior, etc.) quoted so frequently here? One would think that the self-proclaimed enlightened ones would want to aim their eloquent rebuttals a tad higher than a teenage child. Picking such easy targets shows intellectual insecurity y'know. Unless of course those that pick these quotes and post them are also of the same age; in which case, I suppose, anyone visiting FSTDT above the age of 15/16 is really in the wrong place.
Shuffle a deck of cards, then lay all the cards out. The chance that the deck of cards would come out in that particular order is 1 in 52!, or 1 in 8.06581752 × 10^67, when you expand the factorial. This is a very, very, small chance of occurring, and yet it just happened. Unlikely things still occur.
By most estimates, there are 200 to 600 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone. The number of galaxies in the universe is estimated to be between 125 to 500 billion, each of which probably has a similar number of stars as our own galaxy. The universe itself is about 13.75 billion years old. Let's assume that the average number of plants in a solar system is just 1. That means, that there was between 3 × 10^32 and 4 × 10^33 planet-years for life to occur in. That is a _lot_ of time for even unlikely things to occur.
Of course, all of this is immaterial, anyways. Probability is a way of predicting whether something will occurred. It tells you nothing about an event that has already occurred.
"Hey I'm the big bang, I exploded out of absolutely completely nothing. Now I'm the universe and the big bang was a huge messy explosion but somehow I have great universal and earthly laws that just seem to work."
Funny, I usually feel tired after a huge messy explosion.
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