Re: Evolution Deniers


Conspiracy of Doves wrote:
> Shuffle a deck of cards and pick any five randomly.
>
> The odds of you getting that specific sequence of cards are 1 in over
> 14 billion.
>
> Yet you just did it, didn't you.
>
> People like you make the mistake of starting with the end result,
> thinking about the odds of humans evolving. You don't consider the fact
> that we didn't HAVE to evolve, something else could have just as easily
> evolved in our place. Even if we hadn't evolved, SOMETHING would have,
> it doesn't matter what.

Why is that?

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