A SHORT LESSON ON PROBABILITY

  The following examples   show the chance of guessing the truthfulness of any number of scientific Biblical statements before verification. 

 In every Algebra II book, there is a Law which says the chance of flipping a coin and having it landing on heads each time is one chance out of 2^n (2 to the nth power) where n is the number of times you flip the coin. 

EXAMPLE I

  If I flip a coin one time then it can either land on heads or tails. So, the chance of landing on heads is one chance out of 2^1 (where n is 1) which is 2 to the first power or 2.

  If I flip a coin twice then it could land on  Heads (H  )first and H second------It could land on H first and Tails ( T ) second-----It could land on T first and H second or  it could land on T first and T second.

To say it differently the two flips could give us HH, HT, TH or TT which are four possible outcomes or 2^2nd power ( 2 to the second power ). In this case n is 2 and we have 4 possible outcomes.  2^2=2x2 

Thus, it follows that we have one chance in four of landing on heads each time.

Example III: It follows that if I flip a coin three times in a row it follows that there could be 2^3 (or 2 to the third power) outcomes. The number of possible outcomes is 8 if n = 3.  They are as follows:  2^3 = 2x2x2 

HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, TTH, THT, TTT which gives us a total of 8 outcomes which is 2^3. 

Thus, we would have one chance in 8 of landing on heads each time.

Using the same logic, it follows if I flip a coin four times in a row, the chance of landing heads each time is one chance in 2^ 4 power (2 to the 4th power which is  2x2x2x2 ) or one chance in 16 if n = 4.

The chance of landing on Heads each time is 50% and when I guess whether something is true or false without a clue as to the truthfulness of a statement the odds would still be 50%. 

Therefore, if I were to guess whether or not 3 different statements are true or not,  my guess could be the following if T = true and F= false then I could only end up with the following outcomes for making the three guesses : TTT, TTF TFT, TFF , FTT, FTF, FFT & FFF or 8 possible outcomes. 

The three guesses would give us 8 outcomes or 2^3 power outcomes which is exactly the same number of possible outcomes we get when we flip a coin 3 times.

Likewise, it follows if I found 35 scientific statements in the Bible which were beyond the wisdom of man at the time it was written, and if the writer were to guess the truthfulness of the statements, then there would be one chance in 2^35 power of being correct each time. 

Two to the 35thpower is 34,359,738,368. This would be absolutely amazing.

 If I  were to have guessed the truthfulness of 35 scientific statements in the Bible thousands of years ago with a 50% chance of being correct each time, I  would have only one chance in 34,359,738,368 of being correct on 35 guesses in a row without a single incorrect guess. 

 That is exactly what happens in the Bible. At least 35 scientific statements are listed in the Bible which were beyond the wisdom of man at the time they were written.