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In my virtual travels and arguments with trolls on the intelligent design versus evolution theory, I noticed the reference to the quote over at Flogging the Simian, which I thought was incredibly amusing.

Apparently, Soj is a true communist as she believes in the theory of evolution. Funny how people of the leftist ideological persuasion hold that view in addition to the idea that Christians shouldn’t be allowed to have a voice and are second class citizens. This holds true with how Christians are treated under sharia law, incidentally, which is yet another reason why leftists get along with islamic terrorists so famously…islamofascism is similar to fascism which is a derivative of marxism, so they’re all in one big happy family. What Soj displays on her blog is a picture of a monkey at a typewriter and she refers to a quote from Thomas Huxley.

This famous evolutionary argument, dates back to 1860, the year after the publication of the Origin of Species. At Oxford, Darwin’s Bulldog, Thomas Huxley, engaged in a creation-evolution debate with theologian Samuel Wilberforce. There is no transcript, but reportedly, Huxley, in making his case for chance origins, said that six monkeys, poking randomly at typewriters, and given enough millions of years, could write all the books in the British Museum. More than 100 years later, people heard a variation on that theme;

“If a room full of monkeys were randomly clack at typewriters long enough, they would eventually recreate the complete works of Shakespeare. And if monkeys could recreate the complete works of Shakespeare by chance, then obviously a cell’s information content could also arise by chance, if only given enough time.”

Anyone who believes these projections hasn’t figured out the math. What are the odds of a monkey typing one predetermined nine-letter word, such as “evolution”? Let’s assume a typewriter has only letters and no other symbols. Obviously, the first letter “e” would be a piece of cake. But to get “evolution”, since the alphabet has 26 letters, one must multiply 26 by itself eight times. We find the monkey would need, on average, more than five trillion attempts just to write “evolution” once correctly. Typing ten letters per minute, this would take over a million years. To get two consecutive pretermined nine-letter words, such as “evolution commenced”, would take more than a billion billion years, taking us much further back than the Big Bang, which supposedly occurred some 15 billion years ago. In other words, if a monkey started typing at the time of the Big Bang, and continued until now, he couldn’t even produce two consecutive preselected 9-letter words–let alone “the works of Shakespeare”.

If it is objected that the example had a roomful of monkeys, Dr. Duane Gish puts the monkey matter in perspective:

If one billion planets the size of the earth were covered eyeball to eyeball and elbow to elbow with monkeys, and each monkey was seated at a typewriter (requiring about 10 square feet for each monkey, of the approximately 10 to the 16 power square feet available on each of the 10 to the 9th power planets) and each monkey typed a string of 100 letters every second for five billion years, the chances are overwhelming that not one of these monkeys would have typed the sentence correctly! Only 10 to the 41st power tries could be made by all these monkeys in that five billion years…There would not be the slightest chance that a single one of the 10 to the 24th power monkeys (a trillion trillion monkeys) would have typed a preselected sentence of 100 letters (such as “The subject of this Impact article is the naturalistic design of life on the earth under assumed primordial conditions”) without a spelling error, even once.

Apparently Soj is comparing her blog to shakespeare and if that isn’t a “hoot”, I don’t know what is. Either that, or she’s wacking the monkey. Instead of “flogging the simian” I much prefer she call it what it really is…which is “wacking the monkey”.

Update: I found out Soj is a man. So he is DEFINITELY wacking the monkey.

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