RE: Would you be an atheist if science and reason wasn't supportive of atheism?
December 6, 2012 at 12:38 am
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2012 at 12:40 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 6, 2012 at 12:24 am)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: Are you kidding?Try again. The only relevance the passage of time has to the proposition is whether or not the event occurred in that interim. An improbable event becomes a certain event after the fact, 1:1.
An improbable event doesn't become probable just because time has passed.
Quote:Nobody calculates probabilities like this.
Again, whats the probability of you posting your last response? Care to calculate that probability? People absolutely do calculate probabilities like this. Calculating the probability for a known event is exceedingly simple though, because it's always 1:1.
Quote:A coincidence that happened in the past is still a coincidence. An inevitability that happened in the past is still an inevitability.They both happened? Well, given that they already happened they're both 1:1.
Quote:If you wind back the clock and run the event again you just might get a very different outcome than your 1:1 prediction.You may get a different calculation a priori (without the event taken as a given), but it would be missing one important point of data, one that leads to a conclusion of 1:1.
Quote:How old are you?1:1.
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