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Post by Vene on Nov 14, 2009 17:07:59 GMT -5
It's like this, you have 1000 radioactive atoms, each atom has a 3% chance of decaying every second (yay for pulling numbers out of my ass). So, statistically speaking, the average second has 30 atoms decay. You don't know which specific atoms will decay, but you know the number that will. And knowing the number that decay gives a constant rate, but each atom will do so randomly and spontaneously.
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Post by Old Viking on Nov 14, 2009 19:08:50 GMT -5
Well golly, that was new.
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Post by lonelocust on Nov 14, 2009 21:09:49 GMT -5
Wow, that was even worse than I expected. I liked it better when it was broken.
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Post by Undecided on Nov 15, 2009 0:56:19 GMT -5
I must wonder: what goes on in such people's heads when presented with profound and utter refutations?
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Post by dasfuchs on Nov 15, 2009 8:58:49 GMT -5
I must wonder: what goes on in such people's heads when presented with profound and utter refutations? Why do you think it was a drive by? the OP prolly thinks he's right and that's all there is to it and didn't want to hang around to watch the atheists shoot down his crap with logic. He got his rocks off with his post, his holy duty is fullfilled and a weak attempt at making people see the TRUTH(tm) has made him feel superior to everyone else
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Post by Bluefinger on Nov 15, 2009 9:43:11 GMT -5
It's like this, you have 1000 radioactive atoms, each atom has a 3% chance of decaying every second (yay for pulling numbers out of my ass). So, statistically speaking, the average second has 30 atoms decay. You don't know which specific atoms will decay, but you know the number that will. And knowing the number that decay gives a constant rate, but each atom will do so randomly and spontaneously. Yes, though to remember, each radioactive isotope has its own half-life, whilst one isotope may be highly radioactive, another would have a very large half-life and not be as radioactive. Whilst for both, the individual atoms decaying would be a random process, the rate can still be measured as it is occurring over a large number of atoms. Even chaotic and random events can be statistically modelled and tracked over a large enough sample size. This is because the likelihood of decay differs between different individual atoms. Even though the likelihood is variable, the process of actual decay is random, based on that likelihood.
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Post by shiftyeyes on Nov 15, 2009 15:25:58 GMT -5
Even if we had a completely deterministic universe, that still wouldn't prove a creator, let alone a perfect creator. Simplest argument is Hume's design argument. Can't tell the universe was designed without other universes to compare it to.
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