Expelled the movie

Do you remember the little cartoon about the casino, to show the odds against life spontaneously happening by random chance? A cartoon Dawkins is pulling on the slot machine, and these hundreds of jackpots would all have to come up the same in orer for it to happen, so of course it doesn, and he stars pounding his head on the machine, saying in this cute British accent, "Curse you, Mother Nature!" That was highly amusing and also showed one of the weaknesses of Darwinism, the odds against it happening with no Design whatsoever.
 
Yah, Ben's interview with Dawkins at the end was definitely my favorite part of the film, although I enjoyed the weird quirky stuff like that cartoon, too. Ben's just amusing to me with his sort of dogged deadpan ways, and then he was just exasperating Dawkins. Oh, any scenes with Dr. Berlinski were also my favorites. I love him. :)
 
"That was highly amusing and also showed one of the weaknesses of Darwinism, the odds against it happening with no Design whatsoever."

Inky, using the famous phrase "You're one in a million," I haev thought about the mathematical possibility of anyone existing. Now if you consider fate to be guiding everything in everyone's life, that is one thing (of course it would preclude free will in this case as well), but otherwise, let's preceeed with my math.

The odds in your existence are 1:1 million. That means the ods are the same for your parents as well. So now we have your odds in existing being 1: 1 million cubed (father 1m* mother 1m* you 1m). Add in your grandparents, of which you have four, now you have 1 million to ninth power of your existence. With each successive past generation, you have an exponentially lower chance of your existence. Things can happen even without a Designer. I choose not to believe it, but saying the odds are against it, while correct, is pointless. Odds are meant to be surpassed at times.

MrBob
 
Things can happen without a Designer, of course. But it's a lot easier to get an inky from a mr. and mrs. spot today because humans developed along the lines they did 4 billion years ago, if you see what I mean? If the earth had actually just laid around in a primordial soup without the guiding hand of a Designer ... the odds against the inky we have today appearing here are even astronomically higher than what you have listed!
:)
 
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