Blackdog22
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Another for you.
A Statistical Monstrosity
The President of the New York Scientific Society, as recorded in the "Readers' Digest," gave eight reasons why he believed there was a God. The first one was this. Take ten identical coins and mark them one to ten, place them in your pocket, and take one out, there is one chance in ten that you will get number one. Now replace it, and the chances that number two will follow number one are not one in ten, but one in one hundred, and so on, counting ten each time, so that the chances of number ten following number nine are one chance in 10,000,000,000 (ten thousand million). It seemed so unbelievable to me that I immediately took pencil and paper and very quickly discovered he was right. Try it yourself.
That is why George Gallup, the American statistician says: "I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - chance that all the functions of the individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity."
Surely no thoughtful person would wish to base his eternal future on a "statistical monstrosity." Perhaps that is why the Bible says in Psalm 14:1 "The fool hath said in his heart there is no God." (The Reason Why by R.A. Laidlaw)
While the wonders of our Universe, and the seemingly improbability of life happening, are amazing, how much more amazing is it to believe that a God came about or always existed? You put forth this "statistical monstrosity", but then put God in its place, a being that is infinite. A being that is infinitely more complex and would be infinitely more unlikely than any statistical improbability that science has come up with. Sometimes you gotta take what is more likely, even if that likeliness is extremely unlikely.