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Re: The Pagan 'problem'
Oct 03, 2010, 06:12
There's an analysis of Hoyle's claim here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyle's_fallacy

I think the crux is that for the tornado creating the 747 to be a valid comparison with evolution it would need to create it not all at once by chance but by a vast series of trials and errors culminating in a finished 747.
On that basis, apparently, evolution is a viable theory as there is a believable possibility that the requisite number of trials and errors have happened in order to arrive at the life forms we see.

Creationists use the same "impossible chances" argument to say evolution couldn't have produced an eye but I saw Prof Dawkins on telly the other day going through the known sequence of it's development via miniscule improvements providing survival advantages and it made perfect sense. ;)

As for why people go mad at creationists I dunno why that is but I'm one of them. They just annoy me. Did you know there's a creationist museum in Plymouth?
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