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| Quote (Zachriel @ Feb. 08 2010,14:22) | | CJYman thinks that big numbers make for big arguments, and titin is big as far as proteins go. Any time there's a gap in knowlege (scientific or personal), he inserts a uniform probability variable. That means the more ignorant he is, the longer the odds. |
He's not the only one. Dembski and Marks make essentially the same assumption in their latest conference paper, with "Bernoulli's Principle of Insufficient Reason" where ignorance is justification for uniform probability distribution and hence "tornado in junkyard" probability calculations.
Tom English has some choice comments on the (mis)application of Bernoulli's Principle to unbounded algorithmic search spaces: "wrong, wrong and wrong".
The way I see it, total ignorance of possible algorithmic pathways renders the search space infinite.
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The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny is alleviated by their lack of consistency. -A. Einstein (H/T, JAD)
If evolution is true, you could not know that it's true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. ?Think about that. -K. Hovind
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