RE: Why "mysterious ways" don't matter.
July 16, 2014 at 10:19 am
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2014 at 10:27 am by Jenny A.)
(July 16, 2014 at 12:16 am)alexwenzel Wrote: Here is another algorithm for you to wrap your mind around:[Large and colored fonts removed for brevity]
ODDS OF A SINGLE CELL: 1 in 10 to the 2,680th power, or 1 followed by 2,680 zeros That is 30 times more particles believed to exist in the entire universehock:
Lot of mysterious lottery winnings
You cite a source for this statistic in another thread:
(July 15, 2014 at 11:45 pm)alexwenzel Wrote: Using computer models and statistical methods: Read it bellow in National Geographics[url=http://atheistforums.org/newreply.php?tid=26578&replyto=709613
The odds are in that article, but they have nothing to do with the odds of a single cell. In the article you cited Theobald, a biochemist at Brandeis University is reported to have tested the single cell source model of evolution by calculating the odds of other possibilities based upon the DNA and other chemical signatures in the cells of living animals in the genome.
Your article says that the odds of
Quote:The "best competing multiple ancestry hypothesis" [which] has one species giving rise to bacteria and one giving rise to Archaea and eukaryotes, said Theobald, a biochemist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts [at 1 in 10 to the 2,680th power].Ker Than for National Geographic News
Where you got the "single cell" idea I can't imagine unless you didn't read or couldn't understand the article.
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