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		fourthark on Aug 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't forget randomness is still just a hypothesis... Tell me why evolution would require all of those combinations to be tried? Edit: Microsoft Windows 10 is 9GB. It would be impossible to try 8^9000000000 different programs. Yet, Windows exists, and most of us believe it's contained in those 9GB.

GregoryPerry on Aug 12, 2019 [flagged] [2 more]

So per your logic the Windows 10 operating system was created by random iteration of x86 opcodes over a lengthy period of time? Huh?

fourthark on Aug 12, 2019 | [–]

Exactly the opposite. Just because there are so many possibilities doesn't mean that all of them have to be tried or make sense.

You wouldn't code that way and nature doesn't either.

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