Category: Intelligent Design and Probability

https://youtu.be/lWkp0iSeXIA A long time ago on a planet so bear, some water and dirt that mix up with the air. Some sand and some rocks to make it just right. The stage was all set in the deep of the night. A bolt of white lightning, a great deal of thunder and suddenly there was a marvelous wonder. The rocks yielded metal, the sand turned to glass and as the years flew a new thing came to pass. The metal formed gears, the glass a watch face and little by little things fell into place. The parts came together just like a good rhyme, with ticks and with tucks and with hands that tell time. A beautiful watch began ticking one day formed all by itself in a wonderful way.…

The video below argues that highly improbable events take place all the time. The implications of this is that we should not conclude that spontaneous generation, which are considered highly improbable events, cannot take place. There is a fundamental flaw to this logic. We are not looking at an event that took place and asking “Did it happen?” Of course it is 100% certain it did happen, once it has happened. What are are doing is putting ourselves at the time of the event, before it happened, and asking. What is the likelihood of this event occurring? Lets say there is a one-in-a-million chance of winning the lottery. Not knowing which is the winning ticket, we can only conclude that each ticket has a one-in-a-million chance of winning. We can't…

In the video below, Richard Dawkins tries to show how the overwhelming odds of natural selection (what he calls "mount improbable") can be overcome. In doing so, he actually proved the opposite that natural selection cannot explain away the odds, only intelligent agency can. Climbing Mount Improbable - Growing Up in the Universe - Richard Dawkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1vXXMsYak Dawkins postulated the idea of a 3-stage combination lock whereby you don’t have the break the lock all at once. You break the lock one step at a time and achieve small success. In real life, if it is a locked drawer or a bank safe, either it opens or not. It does not open slightly when you get it partially right and some cash falls out. If this safe has a 150-digit…