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God did it! Statistical miracle! 6 double-yolk eggs in a row. (not a miracle, BBC)
December 10, 2011 at 2:52 am
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A miracle! Documented! A man in West London, England, had a six-pack of eggs, which he was making into an omlette. Each one was a double yolk egg. According to the British Egg Information Service, the "odds" of any one egg being a double yolker is about one in one thousand (they do eggs, so we'll give them the benefit of the doubt).
Do the math, that comes out to a statistical probability of one trillion (that's a US-style trillion, with twelve zeros, not a British-style trillion with a lot more).
The BBC explains why this is -not- proof of a miracle, however. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16118149
James, on the Left side of Nebraska.
(edit to correct city in England where the alleged miracle took place)
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
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RE: God did it! Statistical miracle! 6 double-yolk eggs in a row. (not a miracle, BBC)
December 10, 2011 at 3:10 am
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Isn't miracles that aren't miracles wonderful?
It's truely a blessing but not really that shows that Jesus the real but actually fictional person has showered us with the affections of the lord but not really.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
