such rhetoric can only persuade the most limited and mathematically unsophisticated minds.Such an artificially contrived string of gibberish does not compel anyone to accept that an infinitely impossible event(abiogenesis lets say) can become possible
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Oh man, I could have some fun with this guy.
<<< an infinitely impossible event >>>
I may be wrong about this, but my (somewhat limited) understanding of quantum physics is that it implies that no event is "infinitely impossible". (Besides, that's a redundant term anyway.) Even if I'm wrong about that, abiogenesis is certainly not completely impossible - the odds of it happening in any given second are extremely slim, to say the least, but he's missing out on the Law of Large Numbers - one in a million is pretty likely if you get a million tries.
What you have to realize is that it's not infinitely impossible. Rather, it's VIRTUALLY impossible. Therefore, it's quantifiably improbable. All that's left to do is enter the exact odds against abiogenesis occurring into the Finite Improbability Drive and stir up an extremely hot cup of tea and VOILA! Abiogenesis!
Please define "infinitely impossible." If an event is impossible, what is the function of the word "infinitely" in this phrase?
For Act II, why don't you prove that abiogenesis is impossible. Please cite specific examples and show your work.
I want to see his exact calculations showing that, say, abiogenesis is "infinitely impossible", or even just regular impossible.
Should be good for a laugh.
For a god to exist is, obviously, "infinitely impossible" (redundant, since nothing impossible is partly impossible)
Wouldn't an "infinitely impossible" event create a paradox even for an "infinitely powerful" god?
What happens when an omnipotent being attempts an 'infinitely' impossible task?
This is just a variation of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. An immovable object dictates that there be no such thing as an irresistible force, and an irresistible force by definition precludes there being such a thing as an immovable object. The two can never meet because the existence of one demands the non-existence of the other.
So for there to exist an impossible event, there could not also exist a being for which no event was impossible, i.e. an omnipotent god.
Congratulations, TAAE, you've just disproved your own god! And, I might add, in an mathematically quite sophisticated way.
There's no such thing as "infinitely impossible". There are possible chemical reactions for which the possibility is extremely small ...but when you have billions and billions of small chances, they add up to a much larger chance. And chemistry isn't random, you know.
Confused?
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