(September 24, 2010 at 6:35 pm)superstarr Wrote: To weird people, an unlikely or near impossible happening is a miracle. If you were to roll 10 dice and have each of them be 6, would that be a miracle just because it was unlikely?
Some would say yes. They are commonly known as idiots.
I can't see why it's so hard to explain to some people that any arbitrary collection of 10 rolls has the same probability of occurring than 10 6's - and even the ones who get this principle clearly fail to apply it, siting the improbability of an earth-like planet arising naturally...
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