Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:53:39 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Message-ID: <199711121556.KAA04392@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <199711121545.IAA03820@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > > In my opinion, it takes a whole lot less Faith to believe there is some > > > design to what we call life than it all happened by pure accident or > > > chance. > > > > And why is that exactly? In an infinite universe, anything that can > > happen, probably will happen at one or multiple points. And as you > > pointed out in a previous post, the universe is infinite. > > But, getting all of these 'probably' togethers into a single system such > that they are all put together into the highly complex system we know as > Earth stretches my ability in 'chance' beyond it's ability to believe it > can happen. There are too many billions orders of magnitude for me to > pass it off as chance. > > > > Nate > In an infinite system, you are guaranteed to have every possible combination at least once. Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)
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