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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Theory of Creation and Proof
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.123535.13476@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 12:35:35 GMT
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- Many times recently, I've heard various posters complain that no one has
- ever posted a theory of creation to talk.origins. Now, the fact of the
- matter is that this charge is entirely untrue--I have, in the past,
- posted what I feel to be the best theory of creation yet developed to
- this newsgroup. I refer, of course, to the time-honored and respected
- Norse Creation Theory (NCT).
-
- The basics of NCT are quite simple and intuitive--it states that the
- world as we see it is made up of the fragments of the dead giant Ymir;
- his blood forms the oceans, his shattered bones form the mountains and
- rocks, the top of his skull forms the sky above, and clouds are nothing
- more mysterious than levitating fragments of Ymir's brain.
-
- This theory makes several testable predictions--for example, it predicts
- that the chemistry of seawater should be similar to that of blood and,
- indeed, that's just what we find: the salinity of seawater is similar
- to that of human blood. Now, there are some minor differences (human
- blood, when compared to seawater, is surprisingly deficient in porpoises)
- but it should be noted in this context that Ymir was a supernatural
- being--and quite a large one, for that matter--and could have anything
- in his blood that he liked. (After all, would you argue about blood
- chemistry with a giant large enough that the top of his head could form
- the earth?)
-
- NCT makes several more strong predictions including that the sky is
- composed of a solid layer of bone and that the levitating brain
- fragments we call "clouds" ought to be starting to go bad about now (a
- phenomenon that has so far been observed only in L.A. and parts of New
- Jersey--but then, who knows what the freshness date would be for the
- supernatural equivalent of head cheese?).
-
- On the surface, it might seem that these predictions are not entirely
- supported by meteorological evidence. However, more recent revisions of
- NCT have resolved these apparent contradictions by hypothesizing that
- one of the reasons that fire giants are so rarely observed anymore is
- that, centuries ago, they decided to disguise themselves as humans, at
- first taking on jobs in blacksmithing and other forms of metalworking
- (as befits their temperment), then parlaying their secret stranglehold
- on metalsmithing into a world-wide cartel of metalurgical production and
- refinement that has become the most powerful secret society in the
- world. This organization of undercover fire giants, known as "The
- Aluminati," is so powerful that it can exert its influence over
- scientific circles worldwide, suppressing knowlege of the true nature of
- the universe for their own nefarious ends.
-
- However, as with all other creation theories, the most effective way to
- prove its accuracy is to mention it briefly and then go on to prove that
- evolution or abiogenesis never occured. Though I believe I've already
- gone slightly beyond what would normally be called "a brief mention,"
- proving that abiogenesis never occured is exactly what I'm about to do.
-
-
- As has been pointed out earlier, the probability of abiogenesis (p) is
- bounded 0 <= p <= 1. Therefore, we can safely conclude that the
- greatest possible probability of abiogenesis is 1. So, beginning with
- this "best case scenario" for abiogenesis, we know
-
- 1) p = 1 premise
- 2) p^2 = 1*p multiply both sides by p
- 3) p^2 - 1 = 1*p - 1 subtract 1 from both sides
- 4) (p + 1)(p - 1) = 1(p - 1) factor
- 5) p + 1 = 1 apply 2nd law of thermodynamics
- 6) p = 0 conclusion
-
- Thus, even in our "best case scenario" where we assume the probability
- of abiogenesis occuring is 100%, we find that the probability of
- abiogenesis is actually zero. Proof positive that the earth was created
- by Odin whacking the hell out of the giant Ymir.
-
- Trygve (And if you'll wait a bit longer I'll come up with some way of
- tying this in with the heat of Venus....)
-
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