Re: OT: Gravity explained

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:39:49 +1300, Terry Given <my_name@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:57:22 -0300, YD <ydtechHAT@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Late at night, by candle light, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> penned this immortal
opus:


On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:55:53 GMT, Rich the Philosophizer
<rtp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:23:47 -0500, default wrote:


"Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational
force, but because a higher intelligence, 'God' if you will, is pushing
them down," said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education,
applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.

Gravity is Love.

Cheers!
Rich


This seems to be the original version:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512

The Christian haters are happy to pick up a parody like that and
widely repeat as serious Belief, so they can then mock it.

Like the bumper sticker says, mean people suck.

John

What's wrong with making fun of goofy beliefs? The ID people truly
believe they're on to something, however wrong. If they'd keep it to
themselves it would be allright but trying to legislate it down
everybody's throat is a big no-no in my book. That makes them a fair
target for everything thrown at them.

- YD.


Evolution, as it applies to the origin of DNA, is arguably a goofy
belief. I've seen calculation by serious scientists that resulted in
probabilities than most statisticians would classify as "impossible."

go shuffle a deck of cards, thoroughly.

Then spread them out.

then calculate the probability of that particular arrangement.

Its ~ 10^68, about the same as the number of atoms in the universe.

remarakbly though, it happened.

Clearly God did it :)



But the overwhelming fraction of those arrangements is useless. Hell,
you probably can't find a run that makes a decent poker hand.

John


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