There really should be no confusion.AttentionKMartShoppers wrote:I don't see how something that demands for the 2ndlaw of thermodynamics to not hold true for several billion years on earth is impossible...not just improbable.sandy_mcd wrote:Of course not. I'll let you try to think of some examples. But in the the case which came up there is some slim chance (less than 1 in 10 to the 50th power). But by definition it is still possible; there is always that 1 in 10 to the 50th plus power possibility.Jbuza wrote:Then is there nothing that is impossible?
I am really confused by why people have a problem with this. How can you give odds on something and then turn around and say it is impossible ?
Luke 18:27
Possibility: Can something occur within theoretical context of mathematical or statistical information?
Probability: Can something be expected to occur with known given variables and respect to mathematical or statistical information?
Is it possible that life occurred as a direct consequence of primordial soups? Yes. The numbers clearly state that it is theoretically possible.
Is it probable that life occurred as a direct consequence of primordial soups? No. Although numbers point to a possibility, the sheer variance of necessary materials joining in a non-destructive, productive, recombinable sequence is decisively nil when added to known, physically observed laws of the system.