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What's your favourite paradox? - Emil - 07-28-2016
The title speaks for itself
RE: What's your favourite paradox? - aviator - 07-28-2016
I have a few;
This is just something to make one think: 0.999... (0.9 recurring) = 1. Do you agree?
Another interesting paradox is the "Monty Hall problem" in conditional probability:
Monty Hall problem Wrote:Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
Also, another interesting though in religion [more to do with God in general] is the Omnipotence paradox.
RE: What's your favourite paradox? - Zapp - 07-28-2016
Mine is the paradox where you travel back in time and kill your grandfather before he gets your dad as kid. So logically your grandfather would die just as you would then never be born.
But if you would never be born to kill your grandfather he couldnt die because you killed him, and then that means you will be born.
RE: What's your favourite paradox? - Haarek - 07-29-2016
heard about this paradox called the chicken and the eggs
RE: What's your favourite paradox? - Marty - 07-29-2016
(07-29-2016, 05:33 AM)Midget Wrote: heard about this paradox called the chicken and the eggs
Egg, eggs have been around a lot longer than chickens have
RE: What's your favourite paradox? - Marty - 07-29-2016
(07-29-2016, 05:45 AM)MasterNoda Wrote:(07-29-2016, 05:33 AM)Midget Wrote: heard about this paradox called the chicken and the eggs
The answer to that is easy.
The egg came first because the first chicken, biologically, came from two non-chickens. A being doesn't evolve itself and change all its DNA to evolve new traits, that happens during reproduction with small mutations and natural selection. Evolution is so slow, however, that defining the first ever chicken is nearly impossible, as the closest anyone would get to a guess is going to be in an interval of thousands of years.
So, um, yeah. Egg came first.
This paradox would only be a one if you don't believe in evolution and you think genesis is true.
The bible isn't true :0
Figure that.
RE: What's your favourite paradox? - Haarek - 07-29-2016
(07-29-2016, 05:45 AM)MasterNoda Wrote:I approve this message(07-29-2016, 05:33 AM)Midget Wrote: heard about this paradox called the chicken and the eggsThe answer to that is easy.
The egg came first because the first chicken, biologically, came from two non-chickens. A being doesn't evolve itself and change all its DNA to evolve new traits, that happens during reproduction with small mutations and natural selection. Evolution is so slow, however, that defining the first ever chicken is nearly impossible, as the closest anyone would get to a guess is going to be in an interval of thousands of years.
So, um, yeah. Egg came first.
This paradox would only be a one if you don't believe in evolution and you think genesis is true.
RE: What's your favourite paradox? - Prosto - 07-29-2016
Europa universalism iv, crusader kings 2, Victoria 2, Hearts of Iron iv. All pretty good paradox titles
RE: What's your favourite paradox? - Emil - 07-29-2016
(07-29-2016, 08:33 AM)Borovichok Wrote: Europa universalism iv, crusader kings 2, Victoria 2, Hearts of Iron iv. All pretty good paradox titles
im surprised that a reply like this came so late
RE: What's your favourite paradox? - Arkten - 07-29-2016
God is not almighty.
God cannot create a stone, so heavy, he cannot life it himself.
A. If he could create such a stone, he could not lift it, losing his almightyness
B. He cannot create such a stone, losing his almightyness
100% true