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Ben johnson said:Once probability decreases to one in several thousand magnitudes, all scientific and philosophic thought DO equate it with zero. Statistically speaking, such an eponential probability is, by life itself, raised to literally the power of infinity; several times.
And to say "our existence necessiates the removal of PROBABILITY-ZERO from the body of scientific thought", exposes the bias behind the argument: THAT EVEN CONSIDERING HYPERDIMENSIONAL BIO-ENGINEERING-INTELIGENCE is by DEFINITION STUPID.
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Of course, reading or listening takes a degree of "intellectual honesty"; a Willingness to listen to rational discourse. If someone is CLOSED-MINDED (which is the opposite of "scientific"), then no consideration will be given at all to "intelligent design"...
I will read those things later if I have time, apologies if I don't.
on with the debate:
when the probablility of something is so small, it is regarded as "vanishingly small" and in general, you are correct, in that it is regarded for practical purposes as zero. However the mathematical statement is never made that 10^-1000 = 0. it is still finite
incidentally, if you are going to use numbers and say several thousand magnitudes, and introduce infinities, then I would like to see them before I comment on them.
your final argument is also flawed: the very fact that life exists demonstrates that the processes that allow life to exist in this universe exist. Unless of course you are wishing to claim of course that there is some element in life that is external to the universe. You will of course need to provide some evidence for this on something really simple like a bacterium or a virus, or a strand of RNA. the removal of a probability of zero does force us to discard the possibility of an extra universal entity having started life off, but then the extra universal entity is then demoted to "just another possibility"
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