Posted: Apr 15, 2017 4:01 pm
3.Probability
Creationism: The probability of life occurring spontaneously is x (some ridiculously small number)
Counter-argument: Show them a dice. Roll out twenty rolls and ask them what the probability of those twenty numbers occurring sequentially was. When they do so, (yes, it's a really small number too), gasp in mock amazement and say that it was a miracle, because the probability was so small, and God must have had a divine intervention to make those exact twenty dice rolls occur.
Creationism: The probability of life occurring spontaneously is x (some ridiculously small number)
Counter-argument: Show them a dice. Roll out twenty rolls and ask them what the probability of those twenty numbers occurring sequentially was. When they do so, (yes, it's a really small number too), gasp in mock amazement and say that it was a miracle, because the probability was so small, and God must have had a divine intervention to make those exact twenty dice rolls occur.