"if something is not impossible then if you try often enough it'll happen"
OK, I agree with this but that wasn't what I was asking Mike to cite, because I think he is implying that we were being deceptive. And I think that would be odder to hear someone from our side say that.
Tanypteryx writes:
Mike the Pisser writes:
However I question the conditional premise that, "if something is improbable eventually it will become probable given enough time and numbers".
Can you document anyone but you saying "if something is improbable eventually it will become probable given enough time and numbers"?
To me these two sentences are not saying the same thing and I want to know the context, because mikey's whole post stinks of distortion of our supporting evidence with strawmen probability scenarios that supposedly are of equal probability of evolution or abiogenesis or something else happening.
I'm just sick of people misusing probability theory, 1 chance per million tries doesn't mean you have to try 999,999 times before you win. The 1st or twentieth, or fiftieth try has as high a probability of being the winner as any other number. The analogy of LIFE being the same as winning a bunch of high odds lotteries in a row is purely creationists misusing math and distorting science. Trillions upon quadrillions of atoms and molecules going through chemical reactions fueled by heat from the earth and energy from the sun
for a billion years swamps and completely overwhelms their silly probability calculation of life or the Big Bang or what ever other silly BS they come up with![/RANT]
ABE: And
if conditions change, then something that was improbable can indeed become probable and it's dishonest for Mikey to imply this is deceptive behavior by scientists to report.
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