From: dave@hpdstma.ptp.hp.com (Dave Waller)
Subject: Re: Egg-shaped antediluvian world
Organization: Hewlett Packard
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:32:28 GMT



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In article <1992Sep28.163110.588@aurora.com>, isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak) writes:
|> In article <38@fedfil.UUCP> news@fedfil.UUCP (news) writes:
|> >2^8 = 64, the odds against all continents simply drifting
|> >into one hemisphere, which represents half the earth.  The area occupied
|> >by Pangaea represents considerably less than that, hence the odds against
|> >all land ending up in wuch a confined space may be said to be greater than
|> >64/1.
|> 
|> This is too easy a target to pass up.
|> 
|> First, 2^8 = 256; 2^6 = 64.

No it's not, Isaak, you bullshit con-artist. Due to the reduced felt effect
of exponents, 2^8 = 64 in the antediluvian world. But I wouldn't expect
anything as logical and self-evident as that to get through to a monkey
descendant.

|> Second, it takes at least three points on a sphere to determine
|> a particular hemisphere.  Until you have a particular hemisphere
|> for continents to fall in, you can't start to calculate the chance
|> that they will fall in it.  Hence that odds against n continents
|> falling in one hemisphere at a given time are not 1 in 2^n, but
|> 1 in 2^(n-3), or, for 2 continents, 1 in 8.

Listen, you maroon, all of your meaningless bullshit figures can't stand
up to the weight of the historical evidence as provided by Ovid and Hesiod,
brilliantly interpreted by Dr. Emmanuel Velikovsky. Besides if you had
a brain instead of horseshit in your head, you'd know that the world
was not a SPHERE but egg shaped, and therefore yours, and Carl Sagan's
theories about continental drift aren't worth the air that passes your
anus in enunciating them. Get a clue, Isaak.

|> Third, this assumes that the location of continents is random.  Our
|> understanding of the movement of continents is far from complete,

Finally a true statement. I'd say your understanding of your own penis is
far from complete.

|> Fourth, we are not talking about a given point in time, but a long
|> period of time.  Given long enough, pure chance says that it's
|> practically certain that all the continents will fall near each
|> other sooner or later.

Given your discredited UNIFORMITARIAN assumptions, which anyone with a hint
of common sense can see are utter bullshit. Are you competing with that
janitor Hyde or that Wren-as-sauce man Merritt for boob of the net or
something?

|> Finally, look at a globe sometime.  The Pacific Ocean covers nearly
|> one hemisphere by itself, so the continents effectively do fall
|> all in one hemisphere.

Everyone with at least one brain cell knows that there are only two
hemispheres, north and south. Bullshit "scientists" like yourself seem to
have missed this obvious point.

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So, fellow readers, how'd I do? Although I may have used a few big words that
would give away immediately that I wasn't the Tedster, looking it over it
looks pretty close :-)

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Dave Waller
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