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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 15 2011,12:22   

Quote (noncarborundum @ Nov. 15 2011,12:04)
Quote (forastero @ Nov. 15 2011,11:07)

This uniformitarianism mindset also makes you believe that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.

As I understand the words "random" and "infinite", this is a simple truth.  The monkey will in fact produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare an infinite number of times, as well as an infinite number of copies of the CWS with one typo, the CWS with two typos, and so on.  This is the nature of infinity.

Do you dispute this, and if so on what grounds?

Common sense tells the rational world that its faith based pseudoempericsm

  
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