Common creationist claim: Nothing accurate can come from random chance. Well, in the strictest meaning nothing 100% accurate even exists in the physical universe, regarding to heisenbergs theory. Especially the transistors that our computers use, are never exact and only aproximate their work - but this is worked around by the digital nature of computers, evening out minor errors in the analogue world of transistors. Similar applies to biology. All of this is only philosophical reasoning and for practical purposes we further assume that practical accuracy exist. So ist it still valid then, that nothing accurate can come from random chance? There are a lot of interesting mathematical methods, calculating a result with almost unlimited accuracy - by the heavy usage of random chance. Some of this methods even has complete random chance as the most important precondition - if the random input is not completely random, the result is even corrupted, not as accurate as it could be. One of the most beautiful of this methods could be called throwing matches to the bottom - not exactly what the public expects from a mathematical method. And one of the most interesting and hard to calculate numbers, that is even mentioned in the bible, is the real number pi, the well known 3.141592....... that never ends. So how can this number be calculated by just throwing matches to the bottom? It is decribed in the wikipedia. I do not expect you to fully grasp the mathematical background. But I ask you to honestly and frankly comment if you would have expect such a result from just throwing sticks? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon%27s_needle#Estimating_.CF.80
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 20:31:46 +0000
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