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Re:Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Sha... by hermitcrab on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:01AM (#42015463)
Life has had 3-4 billions years to evolve on earth.

I suggest you read 'the blind watchmaker' by Dawkins to answer your other question.

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Re:Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Sha... by jdthedisciple on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:20AM (#42015536)
You are just repeating the point that was being argued against.

If the lifetime of the universe isn't enough to randomly produce Shakespeare, 3-4 billions of years are cute but useless to randomly produce anything even near as sophisticated as our 46 chromosome set.

I imagine Dawkins still just repeats the conjecture "but it's 3-4 billion years, anything can happen!"

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Re:Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Sha... by danparsonson on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:39AM (#42015618)
A work of Shakespeare is a single specific target, that's why it takes so long to hit it - one letter out doesn't cut it. DNA meanwhile is a general purpose animal kit that has many billions of 'correct answers'. It's not about sophistication.
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Re:Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Sha... by jdthedisciple on Friday November 01, 2024 @09:58AM (#42016972)
it's not about the absolute number of correct answers

it's about the ratio of valid / invalid answers

which is somewhere very close to 0

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Re:Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Sha... by danparsonson on Friday November 01, 2024 @07:54PM (#42022780)
[citation needed]

What are the numbers?

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