Zachriel
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| Quote | DaveScot: If a physicist tells a biologist that something doesn’t make sense in the light of physical law and statistical mechanics you’d better pay attention to it rather than ignorantly accuse the physicist of speaking outside his field of expertise.
chuckhumphrey: The predictions of physicists are so exact as to be truly awe-inspiring. And the same cannot be said of Darwinism. Really, physics is head and shoulders above biology. Dismissing physics goes too far... |
The great physicist, Lord Kelvin, calculated the age of the Earth as between 24 and 400 million years. This was based on the assumption that the Earth had been created as a completely molten ball of rock and had been cooling ever since. Other physicists, using similar assumptions, calculated the age of the Sun as about 20 million years.
Biologists and geologists were not convinced and considered that they had strong evidence that the Earth was much older. Only later was it discovered that the Earth and Sun were being internally heated by a previously unknown source of energy.
Pay attention! The physicists' calculations were exact and awe-inspiring! (But wrong because they were based on faulty assumptions.)
| Quote | Gib: Shuffle a deck of cards. Lay all 52 out. The sequence that you got is extremely improbable. But you were going to get something….
DLH: It appears you do not appreciate the incredibly astronomically low probabilities involved. |
Gib, it looks like DLH has got you on that. You need to shuffle *two* decks to exceed the Universal Probability Bound.
Canasta anyone?
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