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  Evolution is a Fact #27 - Monkeys, Typewriters, Shakespeare, 747s etc.

  by cofty in

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  most creationist arguments can be summarised as "complexity, complexity, complexity - therefore god".

  we have all heard the illustrations about the odds of (insert favourite example) evolving, being less than 10,000 monkeys typing macbeth by pure chance.

  evolution is not like that.

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  It's nice to know this evidence is still bugging you all these years later.
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  Evolution is a Fact #27 - Monkeys, Typewriters, Shakespeare, 747s etc.

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  most creationist arguments can be summarised as "complexity, complexity, complexity - therefore god".

  we have all heard the illustrations about the odds of (insert favourite example) evolving, being less than 10,000 monkeys typing macbeth by pure chance.

  evolution is not like that.

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  Wow it took you six years to come up with that!

  It's just as if you have never read the OP.

  However to get just the first two words together “When Shall” the odds become exponentially more difficult.

  From the OP..

  Imagine our 10,000 monkeys randomly typing until one of them by pure chance comes up with "When.."

  At that point all the other pages are scrapped and every monkey is given a copy of this page. We observe some more until another monkey adds "shall.." and so on through thousands of iterations. How long would it take to achieve "When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" Completing the full play now becomes inevitable....

  The illustration is also misleading because it assumes there is an end product that we are hoping to achieve. This is sometimes referred to as the teleological fallacy. Evolution had no purpose in mind. It isn't trying to produce Macbeth or build a human. Whatever works is favoured by natural selection - from bacteria to beetles, it doesn't care.
  
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  Top AI inventor Geoffrey Hinton reluctantly concluded that AI will probably humanity fairly soon

  by slimboyfat in

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  geoffrey hinton, major inventor of artificial intelligence: .

  “if you take the existential risk seriously, as i now do—i used to think it was way off, but now i think it’s serious, and fairly close—it might be quite sensible to just stop developing these things any further, but i think it’s completely naïve to think that would happen.

  there’s no way to make that happen.

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  Don't make me watch 40 minutes of some smart ass telling me 'the end is nigh'. I've had a lifetime of that shit. How will AI kill us all exactly?
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  Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?

  by slimboyfat in

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  have you seen this video about the covid vaccines?

  have you got any views on the information?

  i find it worrying at least.

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  Syd???
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  Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?

  by slimboyfat in

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  have you seen this video about the covid vaccines?

  have you got any views on the information?

  i find it worrying at least.

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  No. its not. - syd

  According to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries it is exactly 31% above normal for last week.
  
  
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  Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?

  by slimboyfat in

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  have you seen this video about the covid vaccines?

  have you got any views on the information?

  i find it worrying at least.

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  Syd - Are you familiar with the Pfizer trial results?
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and Mental Health

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  this psychiatrist makes sense to me.. https://youtu.be/l5wcqc6m-gi.

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  Bergman has passed lots and lots of examinations but in some areas he is a complete dolt.

  You will find it difficult to find others in academia who take him seriously.
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  Sir Isaac Newton's date for the end of the World

  by LostintheFog1999 in

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  this uk newspaper carried a most interesting article about sir isaac newton.. apparently, as well as science, newton was interested in calculating the second coming of jesus and the end of the world, which he reckoned would happen in 2060.. https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1760879/isaac-newton-doomsday-prophecy-imminent-apocalypse.

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  I think Newton wrote more about theology than science. He had some far out beliefs.
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  Biden running in 2024 🤣

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  i've filed this under news and world events, although i could've posted it under entertainment, lol.

  apparently, joe biden will be seeking re-election for another term in the white house.. this, despite a recent poll showing that 70% of people don't want him to run again.. biden just has to be the worst president i've seen.

  his gaffes, over-relience on a prompter, and, more than any other president, his refusal to answer journalists' questions, all go to make him top of the list in terms of bad presidents.. it will certainly provide entertainment, if nothing else..

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  Biden is a figurehead. Will the Democratic party be able to hide him from scrutiny enough to protect the facade?

  It's a sad state of affairs when a country the size of the USA look like they are going to resort to a re-run of Biden v Trump. It's difficult to see how Trump could have picked up any additional support since 2020.

  Ron DeSantis looks like an interesting option if Trump doesn't destroy him first.

  American domestic politics is a matter for Americans but the world needs an intelligent leader in charge of the Superpower.
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  The corrosive nature of CRT

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  diane abbot has been temporarily suspended from the labour party whilst they investigate her behaviour.. what's she done?.

  it was leaked that a first draft of a letter she was going to write had the claim that jews can't experience racism.. the influence of crt is obvious.

  according to this warped worldview, there are two types of people, oppressors and oppressed.

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  If you have only heard about Gramsci from those who use him as a kind of villain it’s no basis - SBF

  Gramsci was a leading intellectual force behind 20th century Marxism.

  Marxism murdered at least 10 million citizens who were unlucky enough to be born in the wrong place and time. As a philosophy it has proven to be every bit as evil as National Socialism. To defend Marxism or to wish for a revival of Marxism in some new version for the 21st century is the moral equivalent of longing for the philosophy that underpinned Fascism.