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by George Jelliss , Crewe, Friday, November 14, 2008, 10:30 (5851 days ago) @ David Turell

DT: "George you are quite right." - I'm always immediately suspicious when David says he agrees with me! - DT: "I think it really is an equal flip of the coin, because of the prodigious odds against chance having done the creation of what does exist." - The odds against the existence of Chance and the existence of God are not a 50-50 flip of the coin. Chance we know exists. It obeys the laws of ststistics. God I'm pretty certain doesn't exist, but that is the whole subject of this forum. - I can only repeat what I've said many times before. Evolution depends on an initial chance event, but that is only the trigger for an inevitable sequence of events that follow, due to the action of laws of nature, such as gravity or chemical reactivity. It is not chance alone that does the creation. You may recall the golfing tragedy I used as an illustration. The overall event dhw insisted on calling an "accident" even though most of it was inevitable. Given enough time and enough variation in the situations an accident of the right creative type is inevitable.