Thursday, October 16, 2008

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Peter Stoner estimated the likelihood of only eight of these prophecies [regarding the Messiah] being fulfilled in one person merely by chance. His conclusion was that the odds were 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000 (100 quadrillion, a 1 with 17 zeroes after it). Stoner says that would be the same as covering the state of TX with silver dollars two deep feet and then asking someone to travel as far as they wanted in any direction and pull the right silver dollar out, simply by chance.

Stoner also evaluated the chance of 48 of the prophecies being fulfilled by chance and the odds there had a 1 with 157 zeroes after it [I can’t find a name for that].

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