Does anyone understand the part about the car being made from metal and oil thrown from 2 miles up or whatever?
Some people genuinely think that the theory of the big bang says the explosion made everything exactly as it is now by random chance, rather than just being the starting point for a very very long and gradual process.
I’ve had people ask me “how an explosion could form a human” before, which is ridiculous in many levels.
Not everyone can understand a multistep process. Studies have shown they are literally incapable. They survive by copying and memorization of processes.
It sounds like a reference to the “Junkyard Tornado” fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkyard_tornado?wprov=sfla1
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.
Even Boeing can’t assemble a 747. Maybe the junkyard tornado deserves a shot at it.
This reminds me of a programming quote that I can’t seem to find, but the gist was “In programming a one in a million occurrence is going to occur all the time.” The idea being that because computers go so fast and repeat the same instructions over and over any failure condition even at a low probability will appear to happen often simply because of the scale.
You are so right!
For the big social media guys, they are rocking >1b users, and probably many times that in terms of active user accounts. Their databases contain just about every variant of every name and address on the planet. They have users from a timezone that’s +25 hours and the several that are +/-xh15m. Transactions from opposite sides of the globe are colliding and overlapping hundreds of times a second. They have seen every character set (including Klingon and Egyptian hieroglyphics). They see 1-in-1-trillion events all the time.
Their way of developing software is miles away, in fact totally different, from the traditional company app that has a few thousand users and managers that will enforce user workrounds for bugs and useability issues.
This person doesn’t understand how anything works but likes to post as though they do. Lack of belief isn’t belief.
The argument starts with the presumption that the universe would turn out this particular way. To use their own analogy the issue isn’t whether the bullet fired goes through the donut hole, but rather whether it ends up anywhere at all (I like those odds).
I can’t believe religious people still believe in dice! The probability that I rolled a 6, 4, 4, 5, 2, 1, 3, 3, 4, 1 is .000000016538 like thats basically impossible!
