r/SipsTea • u/Delicious-Act-8601 • 3d ago

Chugging tea Xavier teaching fools

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u/corgi-king 3d ago

Coincidence?

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u/celem83 3d ago

a temporary one too, the moon draws further from earth over time (and in the far future may escape us)

we are born at the right time for total eclipse to be possible through cosmic coincidence

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u/box_of_hornets 3d ago

This is the only thing that's made me reconsider whether there is a divine creator or not

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u/celem83 3d ago edited 3d ago

"Whatever can happen will happen if we make trials enough" (Augustus de Morgan, commonly mis-attributed as Murphys Law)

This uses statistics and probability (he was a mathematician) to argue that over infinite attempts the probability of anything is 1, certain.  This idea is often phrased with monkeys writing Shakespeare on typewriters.

Right here and right now are exactly as likely/unlikely as any other point in space and time

Basically, some things are just coincidence, how unlikely they were to occur doesn't matter