Friday, April 25, 2008

Skeptics Cry Foul - Is This Blog a Hoax?

Lately, I am sad to say, there have been skeptics who have suggested that this blog has not, as it claims, created itself from nothing. They say the posts that are being added to this blog on a fairly regular basis were created by someone. They say:

“Everything we know from our uniform and repeated experience is that information always comes from an intelligent source. So when we find posts appearing on this blog in the form of logical sentences, the simplest explanation is that this blog has an intelligent source...either some sort of artificial intelligence computer or more probably a human.”
Professor of Microbiology at a Renowned University in Chicago

Skeptics of this blog have concluded "scientifically" that there is no chance that these words just appeared out of nowhere and found their way onto the Internet. They point to the perfect order of the words and their ability to form coherent sentences (in English - no less). According to skeptics - this is not possible by mere chance .

Let me assure you, this could not be further from the truth.

As I have pointed out before, this blog did not happen overnight. Given the proper amount of time and an insane amount of luck, a blog that is self writing was bound to occur eventually.

Why, a self-evolved blog is nothing in comparison to the evolution of the cells in your body.

Considering that the inner workings of the cell are a fantastic assembly of intricately intertwined biological machinery which is vastly more complicated than anything humans have engineered it is only logical to conclude that a self generated blog is possible as well. After all, modern genetics has shown us that a single human cell contains as much digital information in its DNA as the Encyclopedia Britannica—all thirty volumes—three or four times over. Just one microscopic cell! And the cell contains not just information, but also highly sophisticated processes that convert that information into biological parts, such as proteins.

What is the source of that information encoded in your DNA?

Pure chance and random accidents...just like this blog.

So consider yourself lucky to be reading this blog - and thank God...er...your lucky stars that your cells created themseles too. Time can work magic.

2 comments:

Ryan said...

This is great! Now if I could just get my blog to be self-writing I'd have a lot more time (and probably some better content too!).

Nathan R. Petrie said...

I know it's years after this post's evolution. But man....I just laughed til it hurt :)