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Not what Darwin’s bulldog Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) thought: The works of Shakespeare:

You may also wish to read: Why Thomas Huxley Was Wrong About Monkeys, Typing Forever, Producing Shakespeare “Marshaling information requires these two things: at least one dictionary and at least one grammar.” (Russ White)

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I don't know if Russell Maloney's short story "Inflexible Logic" has ever come up as a topic but I highly recommend it. It's a howl. It's about a group of monkeys who are put to work typing who promply start to type every book in the British Museum. It's not just entertainment. There's some pretty sharp satire on pseudoscientific reasoning. The only thing it was missing was somebody saying that when the monkeys completed a book that the probability was 1 -- so, you know, it was like - a sure thing.hnorman42
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Functional information imply INTENTIONALITY. Atheists need to make intentionality a synonym for randomness and intelligence a synonym for stupidity. :lol:Lieutenant Commander Data
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Appealing to 'infinite monkeys', as Darwinists have desperately done from time to time, renders Darwin's theory profoundly unscientific. As Wolfgang Pauli stated, "Treating the empirical time scale of the evolution theoretically as infinity they have then an easy game, apparently to avoid the concept of purposesiveness. While they pretend to stay in this way completely ‘scientific’ and ‘rational,’ they become actually very irrational, particularly because they use the word ‘chance’, not any longer combined with estimations of a mathematically defined probability, in its application to very rare single events more or less synonymous with the old word ‘miracle.’”
Pauli’s ideas on mind and matter in the context of contemporary science – Harald Atmanspacher Excerpt: “In discussions with biologists I met large difficulties when they apply the concept of ‘natural selection’ in a rather wide field, without being able to estimate the probability of the occurrence in a empirically given time of just those events, which have been important for the biological evolution. Treating the empirical time scale of the evolution theoretically as infinity they have then an easy game, apparently to avoid the concept of purposesiveness. While they pretend to stay in this way completely ‘scientific’ and ‘rational,’ they become actually very irrational, particularly because they use the word ‘chance’, not any longer combined with estimations of a mathematically defined probability, in its application to very rare single events more or less synonymous with the old word ‘miracle.’” Wolfgang Pauli (pp. 27-28) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233554311_Pauli%27s_Ideas_on_Mind_and_Matter_in_the_Context_of_Contemporary_Science
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I hear they typed "ID" over and over and over and over...chuckdarwin
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The exercise was tried, they mostly typed the letter S.kairosfocus
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