User talk:Gracelandtm

Welcome
19:40, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * catb0t(Totally Not A Bot!) 22:53, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Loss of information
He's flatly wrong. Some links: 19:55, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Claim CB102 at Talk Origins
 * Richard_Lenski
 * Nylon-eating bacteria and Peppered moth evolution
 * Question 1: How Does Evolution Add Information?
 * Types of mutations, some of which add info


 * So, first, welcome to the wiki. I'm Iggles. FuzzyCatPotato beat me to the welcome template and the Lenski bits, so I'm just gonna jump in on the numbers! Bear in mind, I am almost as bad with statistics as I am with biology, but I read this one somewhere.
 * Get a six sided die.
 * Roll that die. You rolled a 1. Your odds of getting a 1 are 5 to 1. My odds of predicting the 1 are the same. Simple.
 * Roll again. You rolled a 2. Your odds of getting a 2 are 5 to 1. Still simple, right? But my odds of having predicted the 2 are 35 to 1, since I got the first prediction.
 * Keep rolling. 18 more times. I get every prediction right. The odds of you getting the numbers you get are 5 to 1 individually, but my odds of being right get smaller, and smaller, and smaller, until at roll 20, my odds of being right are 3656158440062975 to 1.


 * Now, if this doesn't seem to track, since we're talking about a hypothetical, and anything is possible in a hypothetical, consider the notion that whether I was right or wrong on my predictions, the die was rolled 20 times, and a specific sequence came from it. That specific sequence has the same probability of occurring as me being right on all 20 predictions. If we roll a further 20 times, and keep the sequence going, the odds of you coming out with the sequence that results is 13,367,494,538,843,734,067,838,845,976,575 to 1 (for fun: thirteen nontillion three hundred-sixty-seven octillion four hundred-ninety-four septillion five hundred-thirty-eight sextillion eight hundred-forty-three quintillion seven hundred-thirty-four quadrillion sixty-seven trillion eight hundred-thirty-eight billion eight hundred-forty-three million nine hundred-seventy-six thousand five hundred-seventy-five to one). Astronomic odds, if they were ever found. And yet, they just happened. In the course of ten minutes or less, you will have done something that has a distinct possibility of having never happened before in human history. Just because the odds of it happening are exceptionally slim doesn't mean they're zero. Have fun editing! Iggles (talk) 20:06, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Forum:Hello
Could you give this Forum thread a more meaningful name, please?--Arisboch ☞✍☜☞✉☜ 01:00, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I dont know how to edit my thread title...
 * Use the "relocate"-function link at the top of the page.--Arisboch ☞✍☜☞✉☜ 13:43, 9 August 2015 (UTC)