stevestory
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Indiana EffigyApril 22, 2016 at 12:24 pm
KF@139: “My particular existence is not a result of blind chance processes and blind mechanisms…”
Your unsubstantiated assertion is duly noted.
“…but the result of a functioning procreative system on the part of my parents.”
True. But my claim was about the unique individual that is you, not that your parents could procreate.
Your father produced 500 billion sperm cells throughout his life. Your mother had a couple hundred thousand eggs. The unique you is the result of one specific sperm cell from your father and one specific egg cell from your mother. Any other sperm or egg would not result in the you that we all know and love. The result is that the probability of you existing, given the existence of your parents, is in the order of one in 100,000,000,000,000,000 (please double check my math, I could be in error).
Now, to really scare you, try extending these probability calculations back a few generations. It will not take too many generations to arrive at a probability that is so astronomically small that it is effectively zero. Therefore, you can’t exist.
Obviously, this conclusion is rediculous because the initial assumption, that the unique person that is you was the targeted goal, is wrong. But this is the same assumption that ID uses when it talks about the combinatorial explosion. |
Edited by stevestory on April 22 2016,15:15
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