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This is false.
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I understand that some physicists now speculate that there are multiple universes but I'm pretty sure they are still only considered speculations, without any evidence.
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2. But if your initial premise were not so absurd, i.e. if there were infinite time, the chimps would defecate on and otherwise destroy the typewriters in short order, but if they did not, 3. The chimps would have to manufacture paper and replace the sheets on the roll periodically, and even if they did that, 4. They would also have to replace the typewriter ribbons as well. Now given these impossible qualifications, which of course you utterly failed to address properly: 1/50 x 1/50 x 1/50 x 1/50.... just 100 times is one chance in 10 to the 169th power. (We use 50 as a conservative approximation to the number of keys, disregarding case sensitivity, on a typewriter.) To type a single line of 100 characters in length, a single line!, would take an average of 10 to the 169th tries, assuming the chimps could manufacture their own paper, and insert it, manufacture their own ribbons, and change them, and repair the typewriters which of course they would be only too eager to pound away at constantly, hour after hour, day after day. Typing at 60 WPM is 5 characters per second. One hundred chimps typing constantly, without ever sleeping, for five billion years, would put out a scant 8 x 10 to the 19th words. So if the universe were a few trillion times older than it happens to be, well, the very argument you pose is meaningless, utterly meaningless. This 100 character line is just one sentence!
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Yes indeed, God bless Darwin the racist.
Incidentally, since you evidently believe there is a "God," does that mean you are one of those "bible thumpers," one of the "fundies" who "believe in a flat earth," as the Anointed Class likes to characterize them? Do you not, therefore, eschew all of science, as the Anointed Class says so often, so maliciously, and so very dishonestly?
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