Re: improbable == intervention ??

Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Fri, 3 May 1996 07:55:08 -0400

Stephen Jones wrote:

>If the probability of: 1. such a large moon being formed; 2. at the
>right time; 3. at the just right distance from the Earth from an
>asteroid impact; 4. blasting away the old poisonous atmosphere and 5.
>setting the Earth on its tilt was greater that 10^50 (which according
>to Borel's Law means it will never happen) then that is an absolute
>*certainty* that it happened by intelligent design.

Please furnish a reference for "Borel's law", as well as for the discussion
that claims it shows that _any_ probabilikty value implies an event cannot
happen. As any student of probability theory knows, events whose
probability is _identically_ zero can and do happen.

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