Seversky
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| Quote (didymos @ Dec. 14 2011,20:41) | | Quote (Occam's Aftershave @ Dec. 14 2011,18:20) | Bully Arrington gets his dander up when DrREC won't give the answer Bully wants;
| Quote | | Bully: "DrREC, I will ask the question one more time. If you evade it again, I suppose the answer will be clear enough. If your opponent were dealt ten straight flushes in a row would you make a design inference? |
If you had never seen a card game before, had no idea what poker is, didn't know what the markings on the cards meant or how many combinations are possible, didn't know what the relative value of any particular combination was, the answer is NO. |
And of course, even if you did know all that and did make the "design inference"....you could be wrong. That guy/gal may have just gotten extraordinarily lucky. |
Just like we all are.
I am a unique arrangement of uncounted trillions of sub-atomic particles that has come into existence for a few score years (if I'm lucky). The odds against my unique pattern coming into existence at this point in time and space must be literally astronomical. If someone better qualified wants to calculate them, be my guest.
So I must be designed, right?
Well, actually, no. As far as I know, I was brought about the good old-fashioned natural way. Unless my parents lied to me, of course.
The same is also true of the six billion or so other similar but unique arrangements of trillions of sub-atomic particles that share this planet with me at this time.
I wonder what the odds against that are? Bully? Bully? Anyone?
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