The Infinite Monkey Theorem

The Life and Liberty Minute

The Life and Liberty Minute features Bryan Fischer, the host of “Focal Point” on American Family Radio. It’s a laser-like 60 second focus on an issue of the day, using the Word of God and the Constitution to analyze and explain.

The infinite monkey theorem

Transcript:

Bryan Fischer here with Today’s Life and Liberty Minute. Evolutionists believe that time plus chance explains everything. Give monkeys banging away on typewriters enough time, and they’ll produce the works of Shakespeare. Well, students from Plymouth University in England put the idea to the test. They put a computer in the monkey enclosure and waited. Pretty soon one monkey started bashing the computer with a rock, after which others defecated and urinated all over the keyboard. What they did not produce was the complete works of Shakespeare. After one month, they produced five pages of text, consisting almost entirely the letter “S”, and did not produce even one single, solitary word, let alone a complete sentence or even a phrase. For a rational explanation of the origin of everything, I think I’ll stick with, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”