RE: Would you be an atheist if science and reason wasn't supportive of atheism?
December 7, 2012 at 12:37 am
(December 6, 2012 at 9:39 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Oh so you mean like flipping a coin and it landing heads up 18 billion trillion times in a row? Now that's improbable to an unimaginable degree, but is it impossible? Probably not, given enough time. No matter how long the odds, forever is longer! Mind you I'm not sure if you could say that is is certain that you could flip 18 billion trillion heads in a row if you had unlimited time?
It would have to be, wouldn't it? I'd think that any occurrence which is statistically possible is going to happen if you have forever.
Think of it this way: you are just as likely to get the same result (18 billion trillion heads) as you are any other possible combination of results. Getting exactly half heads and half tails would be exactly as difficult as getting all heads.
So yeah, 18 billion trillion consecutive heads results is certain given enough time. I would not want to be the poor bastard assigned to the task, though.
...999,998, 999,999, 1,000,000, 1,000,001, 1,000,002...
