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Infinite monkey theorem and creation
2016-05-03 19:03:50 Post No. 1082048
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Infinite monkey theorem and creation
Anonymous
2016-05-03 19:03:50
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The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.
This correlates with how creation began as random mutations that formed life by pure chance.
The relevance of the theorem is questionable—the probability of a universe full of monkeys typing a complete work such as Shakespeare's Hamlet is so tiny that the chance of it occurring during a period of time hundreds of thousands of orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe is extremely low (but technically not zero).
Though if there are infinite universes being birthed then the chance should be 100% chance right? I am not so sure.
It is incredibly odd that monkey's will type the complete works of Shakespeare and then devolve back into typing complete nonsense after that.
This also relates to the "Junkyard tornado." which is an argument used to deride the probability of both abiogenesis and the evolution of higher lifeforms as comparable to "the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747. The odds are so low it's completely insane.
Let's take out the fact that there might be an old man in the clouds that have created us. I think this can't be the case, but I am lead to suspect that it is possible the universe could be intelligent, and that life doesn't just appear randomly. However, within infinite time anything seems possible.
What do you make of this?
