russ@dadlab.UUCP (05/09/84)
To cite that it is beyond the laws of chance for the creation of the earth to have occured as a chance event misses the point. You can take any event or series of events AFTER THEY HAVE OCCURED and show that they could not have happened by chance. Just think about how large the chances must be that I would write this article and that you are reading it at exactly this time and that others are reading it and today is Thursday (or whatever). Or what would be the chances that ten cars are traveling next to each other on the freeway at 4 PM on Friday the 4th of May. The chances could be astronomical and that doesn't mean that it isn't still a chance occurrence. I would appreciate it if someone can point out a flaw in this analysis. Instead it would seem that the laws of chance are not usefully applied to understand the possibilities of the creation. Russell Anderson tektronix!dadlab!russ