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4 revisions | jasirs94 at Nov 24, 2016 12:30 AM | |
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181O.New66 So the odds are more than a number written with fifty figures against—which means, "utterly overwhelming,"—that the right explanation of any given fact would not yet have entered the mind of man by chance, to say nothing of the labor of testing the hypotheses. I could show that, substituting for the above words "any given fact," the words any fact that could materially serve to give science a start, and modifying the odds accordingly, they would still remain utterly overwhelming; but really, the treatment of a fact of intelligence as a question of blind chance is too nonsensical for serious consideration. For too many years Galileo's implied maxim that the "simplest" hypothesis 105 | 181O.new66 So the odds are more than a number written with fifty figures against—which means, "utterly overwhelming,"—that the right explanation of any given fact would not yet have entered the mind of man by chance, to say nothing of the labor of testing the hypotheses. I could show that, substituting for the above words "any given fact," the words any fact that could materially serve to give science a start, and modifying the odds accordingly, they would still remain utterly overwhelming; but really, the treatment of a fact of intelligence as a question of blind chance is too nonsensical for serious consideration. For too many years Galileo's implied maxim that the "simplest" hypothesis 105 |