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'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians
Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".
Two Australian mathematicians have concluded that, given all the monkeys
on earth, randomly typing a letter a second, for the entire projected life
of the universe, there is basically no chance of any of them (or all of them
together) typing the writings of Shakespeare.
Actually, this is old stuff, that the Intelligent Design authors have been saying
for decades now. (But apparently, younger generations of scientists
don't read much of the great books of the older generations).
William Dembski, in his PhD dissertation for the University of Chicago
(The Design Inference), argues for the validy of an " Explanatory Filter" that
uses probability theory and randomness, and maximum resources, to conclude
that any string of letters that describes a meaningful concept (to human beings),
and that has a probability of being created randomly, with a probability of worse
than one chance in 10^500, and was not part of a known natural process, and was
not created by determinism, must have been created by intelligence.
Dembski sets up his thought experiment more intelligently than these 2 Australian
mathematicians. And Demski arrived at the conclusion that the human genome
could never have been generated through random processes, decades before these
2 mathematicians sorta stumbled in the same direction.