The Trapped Scientist - when he opens the door a picture from the Galapagos will appear
This scientist has a 1 in 8000 chance. So he needs to try many times.
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demonstration, I did not write the code to take advantage of how fast a computer can
simulate evolution. Here I do. If you click on the "try to open the door
button," you will see (in almost no time) how many times it takes. Sometimes it is
less than 8000 and sometimes it is more. But on average it should take 8000 tries to open
this door. The speed at the calculation is very impressive. Billions of years can
be modeled with modern computers. So can we as scientists now test intelligent design theory? The answer is not really. It is not possible to prove that God exists. But what science can test is does chance create the information required for the origin and evolution of life. In my book Intelligent Design or Evolution?, I use statistical models and information theory, here I use computer simulations to demonstrate the same results.
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Can
I make the door's combination so large that chance and natural selection cannot break it
even given 100 billion years? To find out, check out the next page. next: Natural Selection Cannot Explain the Origin of Life About this demo: This demo uses JavaScript to demonstrate the evolution of information. The program code is set up so that the odds for the scientists seeing a picture are the same as those calculated using probability theory for the trapped scientist examples (see chapter 1 and 2). That is to simplify the code the scientist is not actually drawing the words from a basket, but instead the code on this page generates a random number between 1 and 240,000. If this number is less than 30, then the door opens. So the odds of seeing a picture on this page are 1 in 8000. The picture always appears on this page because the scientist tries so many times. |