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Originally Posted by Warren Platts
Well is 1 in a trillion essentially equivalent to zero for any practical human purpose?
How about 1 in a quadrillion?
Swift?
Van Rijn?
cjameshuff?
Jim?
Pippin???
Fazor!
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What? No takers?
Yeah why get quantitative? All we need to know is that the probability that the world will end because of the LHC is really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really low.
I hope you boosters realize that your argument is exactly the same as what the creationists deploy: that evolution is about as likely to occur as some crazy, philosophical, scifi, quantum mechanical event like a burrito farting out a miniblack hole.
From a creationist website:
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It is possible, so I am told by physicists, that the universe could just wink out of existence in a singular quantum event. It is possible, according to that physics, that we winked into existence in precisely the same manner one second before you read this. Neither are particularly likely. Neither make particularly believable or useful explanations.
Evolution might be possible. I do not think so, from what I have read, but it might be. I sincerely doubt anyone could argue that it is likely enough to make a believable explanation. (their emphasis)
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