Proving God Statistically

David, all you've done is shot an arrow blindly into the air, painted a target around it where it hit the ground and exclaimed "The odds of hitting a bullseye right there are astronomical!! Therefore God must have guided the arrow!"Not a real convincing argument.The fact is that things of seemingly impossible odds happen all the time in reality. If I were to randomly draw 52 cards our of a deck one by one, the resulting series would have the probability of occurring in that order of 1 in 52! (the ! means 'factorial'), or 1/(8 x 10^67). Yet there there sits the series against what you claim to be impossible odds.

I almost made this same point, but then I re-read his post and I noticed he included replacement of the coin in his procedure. You would be correct if the coins were not replaced in the pocket.Not that it makes his argument any more convincing either way.