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Oct 09, 2009 16:29

I hereby declare it to be COMBINATORIAL MADNESS Pro-Life cupcake day. It's like Pro-Life cupcake day, only slightly nuttier.

Let's round down a lot. The idea is that there are, like, a billion men and a billion women of reproductive age. For each man, there are like a billion sperm per year, and for each woman, there are a few dozen eggs or something that could have gotten fertilized that year, but really, the other million or so just as easily could've been released instead, so let's call that a million. So that's, like, 10^(9+9+9+6)=10^33 unions that could've happened this year, but less than a billion actually happened.

Of course, this doesn't even scratch the surface of how many potential human beings could have been born, but won't be.

But I'm a nice guy, so you pro-lifers only have to bake 10^33 cupcakes. Or 10^24 per person, or so.

And then you have to fit them all onto a wooden ark. Because if there isn't one ready for every potential human being when baby Jesus resurrects the ghosts of departed combinatorial never-weres and 10^27 have to share each one, there will be much weeping.

Why do you make baby Jesus cry by offering subatomic fragments of cupcakes to the lamentable unborn? Why?

intelligent design in action, religion, babies

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