Posted: Dec 22, 2018 2:42 pm
scherado wrote:Hermit wrote:...
You totally misread my post. Putting my reply in other words, it reads: No matter how high or low the odds of an event occurring, I see nothing that turns an unlikelihood into an impossibility. Or in yet other words: As odds increase, the likelihood of an event occurring decreases. It keeps approaching zero, but never quite gets there while those odds are calculable.
So, my reply is the opposite of how you read it.
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I intentionally used the word "likelihood" in the OP. A calculable probability is a very specific mathematical process, with formulas. The events described in the OP are specific and your generalities don't address that. The specifics of the book/binding-split/word/word-heard should be addressed specifically. That you have not, is the reason I read your reply as: "It couldn't have happened, because it's not possible."
There must be data for a probability to be calculable. What is the probability of an event occurring that has not ever occurred? It's NOT calculable.
In the second paragraph of your opening post you wrote:
there was a time that I thought it would be a good idea to be observant for any "signs," yes, evidence of god.
In the third paragraph you proposed
that any, "sign," would be Mathematical in theme; that it would be an event so improbable as to have an incomprehensibly small likelihood of occurring.
This is what I replied to in post #7.
Nobody has managed to explain to me by what criterion we can determine the point at which something becomes so unlikely that it could not possibly have occurred without the intercession of a supernatural entity. Until then an (un)likelihood, no matter how great or small the odds, will always remain just that - an (un)likelihood.
With that the ball landed in your court, and it is still there now.