Mathematicians regard events with probabilities smaller than x as impossible

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Mathematicians regard events with probabilities smaller than x as impossible.

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  1. Ask any mathematician if it is true that epsilon = 0 for every epsilon smaller than x. He or she will think you are crazy.
  2. Borel's Law, or the Strong Law of Large Numbers, is intended to show convergence in mathematical integration and not explanations of natural phenomena.
  3. Picking one event out of a great many possible events just because it actually happened, then compute the probability of that single event, is a misuse of statistics. You have to compute the total probability of the set all similar events.
  4. Throw dice and note the result. Repeat n times, until 1/6 to the power of n reaches x. The probability of you having thrown exactly the result you got will then be lower than or equal to x. If the claim were right, you would have done the impossible.
  5. This is not fallacious so much as just plain wrong. But even if it were correct, it says nothing about reality, and certainly nothing about evolution.
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