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What can coin flips tell us?

Flipping a coin multiple times will initially seem to produce a random and meaningless pattern. Heads or tails don't seem to matter.

Yet if we either flip the coin for a long time or have multiple people doing the flipping patterns begin to emerge. We see long streaks of heads or tails.

The cosmos is well arguably infinite and eternal, and it would correspond to many flippers flipping coins for a very long time. Infinite operations (or flips) are performed.

And the long streaks of heads or tails are well arguably likable to creation and destruction happening within the cosmos. Overall balance between them will not negate the idea of order emerging from chaos. To my mind this is proof that a cosmos governed by chance is perfectly capable of producing life without assistance from an intelligent agency.
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RadioDust · 36-40, M
That's a lot from just flipping a coin. Is it just 50/50 chance, is it increases on one side cause of the weight? Does the surroundings of where the coin drop on make any difference
SW-User
@RadioDust I would think that the terrain you're on would make a difference. (I let the coin 2 fall on the ground so nobody says I touched it. The other partie(s) involved see it as it landed.
LucyGray · 26-30, F
@RadioDust We have to imagine that the coin flipping is legitimate.