“The Babel fish,” said the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quietly, “is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the NONexistence of God.

The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, ‘for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’ ‘But’, says Man, ‘the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? If could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’ ‘Oh dear’, says God, ‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Hey, maybe the guy is justu a darn good golfer. Its not like he was blindfolded or anything.

Esthier, you MUST read Douglas Adams to understand many subculture references in the modern electronic age.

He is the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Ya, but he through himself at the ground, AND MISSED! Think of the odds man!

So Darwin, Socrates, Falwell, and Hitchens all walk into a bar, and the bartender says, “Does this prove God’s existence?”

I have an actual philosopher joke.

Bertrand Russell asks one of his students “I’m going out the weekend on my yacht. Would you care to join me?”

The student eagerly accepts, and has visions of sharing drinks and exchanging ideas with one of the 20th century’s great minds in the luxurious cabin of the man’s vessel.

When he arrives at the pier, though, Russell is setting working at the rigging on a little dingy consisting of little more than a hollowed-out hull, a couple of bench seats, and a tiny sail. Russell notices his student’s look of surprise.

“It’s just that when you said your ‘yacht’, I thought it would be bigger than it is,” the student explains.

Russell considers this a moment. “No,” he finally says. “My yacht is not bigger than it is.”

(You shouldn’t expect much from philosopher jokes, by the way.)

12 septillion (12,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) to 1

exit question: Does this prove God’s existence?

It is, at least, support for some sort of intelligent design. The odds of a self-replicating cell arising from non-living raw materials by itself is approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000 to 1. (that’s 10^300 to 1)

That’s like getting 10 aces a septillion, septillion, septillion, septillion, septillion, septillion, septillion, septillion, septillion, septillion, septillion, septillion times.

Suddenly 12 billion years seems like a heart-beat.

And there’s always the possibility it’s a hoax. What are the odds some duffer and a couple of her friends doctor up a few scorecards to get on Letterman?

I think the possibility of it being a hoax is a SKEPillion to 1.

Does this prove God’s existence?

It proves the existence of the golf Gods. Every time I tee it up I wonder what the golf Gods have in store for me that day.

Almost on-topic, mathematicians still scratch their heads over DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak as among the most numerically improbable events of history.

Dimaggio’s streak was influenced by the presence of an “official scorer.” In one of his games late in the streak there was a questionable ruling regarding whether he got a hit or was on by an error. The scorer ruled it a hit and the streak continued. Holes in one are either in or out; there is no subjectiveness to them.

I got a “Freddy Couples Hole in One” once. I hit my tee ball out of bounds. I was so annoyed, I teed up the second one and just smacked it. The green was elevated, so I didn’t see it go in the cup. We searched for several minutes before I checked the hole and found out it was in. I saw Freddy do that at the Players Championship many years ago. On the 17th hole he hit his tee shot in the water, teed up a second ball, and knocked it in the hole for a par 3.

On the Wednesday of Masters week, they have a fun tournament on the Par 3 course. There are usually one or two holes in one, but you have the best golfers in the world hitting to greens on short holes, less than 150 yards.

BUT, I know a guy, was 75 to79 years old, hits it low, can’t hit a 230 drive w/driver yet he honestly hits 4-5 aces a year on a full course….

And yet, this man has never been struck by lightning, thank goodness.

Shooter, FYI. Your link isn’t linking…

Slooooow-news-Friday exit question: Does this prove God’s existence?

Now you’re just being silly. :)

In short, if you’re looking for proof of God’s existence, look elsewhere. If you’re looking for evidence of simplicity, inaccuracy, and gullibility in reporting, however, the Desert Sun might be a good place to start.

I’m going to give you a little advice. There’s a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.

ok, I’ll bite.
Does the God question prove the existence of stupid questions?
DING I think we have a winner.

Does this prove God’s existence?

No it just proves that she keeps her eye on the ball and ought to think seriously about going pro.