Re: possibly OT: NYT article on GA creationism/evolution debate

[Robert Cohen <Robert.Cohen@PO-BOX.ESU.EDU>]

Daniel Price wrote:
> If a particular event occurs, the probability of it *having*
> happened is
> one hundred percent.  Whether or not the occurrence was quite
> probable or
> was highly improbable is completely irrelevant after the
> fact.  Anyone who
> argues that the universe as it is must be the product of intentional
> design, simply because of the slim likelihood of chance
> events leading to
> its current state, misses the above point.  Tell lottery
> winners, and the
> young lady struck by a meteorite, that what has happened to them is so
> improbable that it could not have occurred.

...by chance.  The implication, then, is that the lottery winnings and
meteorite event were the result of intelligent design.

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