MONKEY MADNESS - Even if monkeys could type randomly at a rate of one key-strike per second, without ever stopping, then to get a simple line of intelligible text would take many billions of times longer than the assumed evolutionary age of the universe. Prominent evolutionist Julian Huxley said that, given enough time, monkeys typing randomly could eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare. When arguing that life could have arisen by chance, evolutionists will often state that — given enough time — anything could happen, regardless of how improbable it might seem. For example, prominent evolutionist Julian Huxley (1887–1975) said that, given enough time, monkeys typing randomly could eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Since then, others too, such as Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins, have made similar pronouncements about monkeys’ random typing being able to produce one of Shakespeare’s sonnets, or at least a sentence from one of his plays. But when Plymouth University (UK) researchers installed a keyboard and computer screen in the monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo, home to six Sulawesi crested macaques, it didn’t result in a nicely typed set of the complete works of Shakespeare. Neither did they get a sonnet. Nor even a single word of Shakespeare. No, when the researchers gave six monkeys one computer for a month, what they got was … a mess.

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Monkey 

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Even if monkeys could type randomly at a rate of one key-strike per second, without ever stopping, then to get a simple line of intelligible text would take many billions of times longer than the assumed evolutionary age of the universe.

by David Catchpoole

 

Prominent evolutionist Julian Huxley said that, given enough time, monkeys typing randomly could eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare.

When arguing that life could have arisen by chance, evolutionists will often state that — given enough time — anything could happen, regardless of how improbable it might seem.

For example, prominent evolutionist Julian Huxley (1887–1975) said that, given enough time, monkeys typing randomly could eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare.

Since then, others too, such as Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins, have made similar pronouncements about monkeys’ random typing being able to produce one of Shakespeare’s sonnets, or at least a sentence from one of his plays.

But when Plymouth University (UK) researchers installed a keyboard and computer screen in the monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo, home to six Sulawesi crested macaques, it didn’t result in a nicely typed set of the complete works of Shakespeare.

Neither did they get a sonnet. Nor even a single word of Shakespeare.

No, when the researchers gave six monkeys one computer for a month, what they got was … a mess.

Researchers offered Sulawesi crested macaques at Paignton Zoo an opportunity to type out a Shakespearean sonnet — but they didn’t get a single word.

The first thing the lead male did was to find a stone and start bashing the computer with it.

Subsequently, the younger ones came and pressed some of the keys.

But most of the macaques’ time was spent sitting or jumping on the computer, or using it as a toilet.

(The computer was protected by a transparent plastic covering in such a way that the monkeys could nevertheless hit the keys with their fingers.)

After one month, the monkeys had produced five pages of text, composed primarily of the letter ‘S’.

But there was not a single recognizable word in sight.

The letter ‘A’ was the only vowel to be used, and it did not make an appearance until page 4.

Most of the macaques’ time was spent sitting or jumping on the computer, or using it as a toilet.

Despite the outcome being gobbledegook, the combined efforts of monkeys Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan have been made available for sale in a limited edition book, bound in the style of a Shakespearean play, entitled Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare.4,5

Towards Shakespeare?

Hardly — evidence for evolution, the monkeys’ performance certainly isn’t.

And, as calculations have shown, even if monkeys could type randomly at a rate of one key-strike per second, without ever stopping, then to get a simple line of intelligible text would take many billions of times longer than the assumed evolutionary age of the universe.

Addressing the idea that time plus chance could have created life, Sir Fred Hoyle said, ‘Now imagine 1050 blind persons [that’s 100,000 billion billion billion billion billion people — standing shoulder to shoulder, they would more than fill our entire planetary system] each with a scrambled Rubik cube and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling [random variation] of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial soup here on earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.’ [Emphasis added.]

David Catchpoole, B.Ag.Sc. (Hons), Ph.D.

Creationist plant physiologist (CMI–Australia)

Biography

Dr David Catchpoole received his B.Ag.Sc. (Hons) from the University of Adelaide and a Ph.D. from the University of New England (New South Wales). His Ph.D. investigated nitrogen transfer between tree legumes, associated grass and ruminant animals (goats). This was undertaken in Indonesia as part of a joint Australia-Indonesia project in forage research, aimed at improving the quality and availability of animal feed.

Dr Catchpoole subsequently worked for the Queensland Department of Primary Industries as a plant physiologist. His research focused primarily on plant nutrition of tropical fruit trees (especially mango), and varietal selection. He has also worked as a science educator at James Cook University, which included lecturing in tropical horticulture.

David was once an ardent atheistic evolutionist, before being challenged to look critically at the problems of evolution, and the scientific evidence for creation and the Bible.

He went on to work full-time for Creation Ministries International (CMI) in Brisbane, Australia, for over 15 years, serving on the editorial panel of Creation magazine, and was a popular speaker, until his retirement in 2014. He has co-authored The Creation Answers Book and Evolution’s Achilles Heels, and contributed to the book, The Big Argument. David has also contributed many articles for Creation magazine and CMI’s popular website, creation.com.

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FACING STORMS: WHO IS YOUR LIFELINE? - “Throw your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you.” The pronoun is singular; the psalmist addresses each member of his audience individually. Individually - we EACH have the invitation to throw our burdens upon the Lord and let Him sustain us. Not the “we” of us - the “you” and “me” of us - no one can throw our burden on the Lord for us - Have you had times when a stab of pain was personal enough and stunning enough to somehow cause you to put your hand over your mouth and keep it there a while? Times when you want to scream, ‘What is going on here? What is this madness? How did this happen? If you’re like me, you find it much easier to talk about a storm in its wake. In the middle of it, you’re just trying to hold on tight to the edges of the boat and keep from throwing up while it rocks to and fro. I’m still in it so I’d rather not even speak to it directly and once again ask you to resist conjecture as well. There’s enough hurt. But I want to be able to minister here and serve here and share with you even in the middle of a hard situation. In our humanity, we all wear out eventually. But sometimes the fact is, we’re not quite at the point of so much better yet. Those of us who are willing to let Jesus minister to us in the deepest parts of our souls and knead the crushed grain of brokenness into break will indeed be so much better. It’s just a matter of time.

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Facing Storms: Who is Your Lifeline?

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“Throw your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you.” The pronoun is singular; the psalmist addresses each member of his audience individually. Individually - we EACH have the invitation to throw our burdens upon the Lord and let Him sustain us. Not the “we” of us - the “you” and “me” of us - no one can throw our burden on the Lord for us

Beth Moore

Hurricanes pummel our coastlines leaving flood damage and power outages.

In third world countries like Haiti, storms can wreak havoc on everyone and everything in their wake.

We have all had our own hurricanes. Here are Beth Moore’s words of encouragement when you face storms in your life:

“Have you had times when a stab of pain was personal enough and stunning enough to somehow cause you to put your hand over your mouth and keep it there a while? Times when you want to scream, ‘What is going on here? What is this madness? How did this happen?’”

If you’re like me, you find it much easier to talk about a storm in its wake.

In the middle of it, you’re just trying to hold on tight to the edges of the boat and keep from throwing up while it rocks to and fro.

I’m still in it so I’d rather not even speak to it directly and once again ask you to resist conjecture as well.

This is such a public format. I don’t want anyone involved in the challenge hurt by any words here.

There’s enough hurt. But I want to be able to minister here and serve here and share with you even in the middle of a hard situation.

Please let me leave it at that. Staying general invites more people to relate anyway.

One reason I have a quiet come over me in a season like this is the pure length of time that can be involved.

Yesterday someone I’m crazy about shot me a very loving text that included, “How is it all going?”

And I never answered it because it’s going the same as it went last week.

Anybody understand what I’m saying? This dyed in the wool sanguine likes to say, “SO MUCH BETTER!”

I don’t like to burden people long term. Oh heck, I don’t like to be burdened long term either. Who does?

In our humanity, we all wear out eventually. But sometimes the fact is, we’re not quite at the point of so much better yet. We will be.

Make no mistake. Those of us who are willing to let Jesus minister to us in the deepest parts of our souls and knead the crushed grain of brokenness into break will indeed be so much better.

It’s just a matter of time. Satan will indeed be defeated. And God will make sure he’s sorry.

I decided I had the words to write to you – not because I suddenly felt talky but – because Charles Spurgeon supplied them to me.

They landed on a sore spot in my soul and brought some comfort and insight. I thought I’d just share the whole thing with you then make a closing comment or two.

From Morning and Evening, today’s date…

“Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.” — Psalm 55:22

Care, even though exercised upon legitimate objects, if carried to excess, has in it the nature of sin.

The precept to avoid anxious care is earnestly inculcated by our Saviour, again and again; it is reiterated by the apostles; and it is one which cannot be neglected without involving transgression: for the very essence of anxious care is the imagining that we are wiser than God, and the thrusting ourselves into his place to do for him that which he has undertaken to do for us.

We attempt to think of that which we fancy he will forget; we labour to take upon ourselves our weary burden, as if he were unable or unwilling to take it for us.

Now this disobedience to his plain precept, this unbelief in his Word, this presumption in intruding upon his province, is all sinful.

Anxious care often leads to acts of sin. He who cannot calmly leave his affairs in God’s hand, but will carry his own burden, is very likely to be tempted to use wrong means to help himself. 

This sin leads to a forsaking of God as our counsellor, and resorting instead to human wisdom.

This is going to the “broken cistern” instead of to the “fountain;” a sin which was laid against Israel of old.

Anxiety makes us doubt God’s lovingkindness, and thus our love to him grows cold; we feel mistrust, and thus grieve the Spirit of God, so that our prayers become hindered, our consistent example marred, and our life one of self-seeking.

Thus want of confidence in God leads us to wander far from him; but if through simple faith in his promise, we cast each burden as it comes upon him, and are “careful for nothing” because he undertakes to care for us, it will keep us close to him, and strengthen us against much temptation. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee.” Spurgeon, C. H. (2006). Morning and Evening : Daily readings (Complete and unabridged; New modern edition.). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers.

I like to do my early morning reading out of a different translation than the one I use the rest of the time.

Different wording often has a way of stirring up a different response in me.

So, a couple of translations sit on my desk where I have my quiet time.

One is always The NET Bible because Melissa gave it to me several years ago and it has (literally) “60,932 Translators’ Notes.”

If I’m not presently doing a Bible study in my quiet time like the one, I just finished of Kelly Minter’s, then often I’ll open up a devotional reading like Spurgeon’s.

Because many of the daily devotionals don’t have longer Bible readings assigned with them, I check the verse they’re using then turn to that chapter in my Bible and read it.

(True to form, I’m making this explanation harder than it has to be. I’ll try to cut to the chase.)

SO, this morning I opened up The NET Bible and read a large portion of Psalm 55.

When I got to verse 22 – the verse captioned in the Spurgeon devotional – I sat tight on the NET translation:

“Throw your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the godly to be upended.”

Maybe you’re visual, too, and right about now you’re picturing throwing. Like hauling off and throwing something as hard as you can.

And maybe getting a little frustration and madness out of your soul while you’re at it. Maybe crying while you’re doing it. Even out loud.

Throw.

Before you’re tempted to hold it to your chest and suffocate yourself nearly to death with it.

Throw.

Then something else spoke to me. It was one of those 60,932 scholars’ notes.

The comment footnotes the word “you” at the end of the phrase “Throw your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you.”

I’ll just cut and paste the note from my Bible software so you can see it for yourself.

“The pronoun is singular; the psalmist addresses each member of his audience individually.”

Biblical Studies Press. (2006; 2006). The NET Bible First Edition Notes (Ps 55:22). Biblical Studies Press.

Individually. We EACH have the invitation to throw our burdens upon the Lord and let Him sustain us. 

Not the “we” of us. The “you” and “me” of us. We also each have the responsibility.

In other words, no one can throw our burden on the Lord for us.

We can’t call in a relief pitcher. Don’t misunderstand.

We can certainly call upon people to pray for us and with us and the New Testament adamantly tells us to carry one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2) but listen.

There is a difference between a burden that is entrusted for us in a season that we are to partner in sharing and carrying.

Say, for instance, a long-term illness or thorn in the flesh. But the part of the burden that we are inadvertently – even accidentally – playing God over needs to be THROWN, Girlfriend.

The part we’re suffocating under because we’re no longer walking, we’re laying down with it on top of us, needs to be…

Thrown.

When we keep trying to figure out what would fix it, then we try that, and it doesn’t work so we wring our hands and go to the next fix, we need to throw it.

We cannot be Savior. We know that because, Lord help us, we cannot even save ourselves.

I so don’t want to be depressing this morning. Forgive me. See? That’s why I’m not as anxious to write while I’m right in the middle of something.

But, after this morning’s reading, I don’t feel as depressed about it. I feel a little lighter. A little less weight on my chest.

My hope is that you do, too. And if you do, it won’t be this post. It will be Jesus.

Oh, you guys. I love you so much. I care so much. Don’t grow weary. God is working. Jesus IS Savior. HE WILL SAVE.”

Beth Moore was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, during what her father describes as the worst thunderstorm the city had seen in five years. He affectionately says the Lord brought her into the world with a drum roll. The fourth child of a retired Army major and a homemaker, Beth was raised in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Her father managed the local cinema where each of her four siblings had a role to play. Beth’s job was to hand out samples of popcorn and soda. Growing up in the theater had its perks. Sometimes Beth would be allowed to slip into a movie and take with her a pickle bag full of popcorn and a Dixie cup of Coke.
At the age of 18, Beth sensed God calling her to work for Him. Although she couldn’t imagine what that would mean, she made it her goal to say yes to whatever He asked. Beth graduated from Southwest Texas State University with a degree in political science. She would later receive an honorary doctorate in humanities from Howard Payne University. She married Keith in 1978 and soon after the Lord added Amanda and Melissa to the family. As a young wife and mother, Beth served the Lord by speaking at luncheons and retreats, working at Mother’s Day Out, and teaching Christian aerobics.

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