Is The Quran's Mathematical Miracle A Coincidence?

Published: May 17, 2018, 4:57 p.m.

b'Is the Quran\\u2019s Mathematical Miracle a Coincidence?\\nPennsylvania Lottery - 666\\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Pennsylvania_Lottery_scandal\\nOn the night of April 24, 1980, more than six million viewers tuned in to the Pennsylvania lottery to watch\\xa0The Daily Number to find out the winning three numbers for the $3.5 million jackpot. \\nSince the money drawn in by the lottery was for the benefit of senior citizens they would have a senior citizen draw the numbers and on that day they drew the numbers 6, 6, 6. \\nSo what?\\nA large number of winners than normal?\\nSo what?\\nLottery authorities and local bookmakers became suspicious when they noticed that a large number of tickets were purchased for the eight possible combinations all involving the numbers 4 and 6.\\nSo what?\\nThey found out that the 4 & 6 balls of the drawing were lighter than the other digits at the time of the drawing that the other digits were covered in a thick latex to make them heavier. \\nSo what?\\nThey got a tip from a bar that there were two brothers going from shop to shop purchasing large quantities of lottery tickets in combinations of 4 & 6. \\nSo what?\\nWell at one of the bars that they bought tickets they made a phone call from the payphone to the studio that was doing the drawing. \\nSo what?\\nThe bartender said it sounded like the person was speaking Greek, and the host of the lottery drawing, Nick Perry happened to also speak Greek. \\nSo what?\\nWhen the brothers were questioned they saw that they had a previous vending machine business with the announcer of the lottery, Nick Perry. \\nSo what?\\nThe brothers confessed that the idea was Nick Perry\\u2019s \\nSo what?\\nThey found the latex paint in Nick Perry\\u2019s studio that was used to weigh down the other digits of the balls for the drawing.\\nSo what?\\nNick Perry and the brothers all confessed to the crime\\u2026\\nSo what?\\nEverything in the investigation points to the fact that the drawing was rigged. No sensible person would attribute all these coincidences to pure luck e.g. there are so many lotteries and this just happens to be the one that had a high rate of participants pick numbers eerily close to the winning numbers and a large number of individuals claim to win. \\nWhen determining if an event is random or by design, we need to investigate\\nNo different than when police investigating a death - they need to determine was the death caused by natural causes or was there foul play\\nProbability alone is not a reason to suspect design\\nCoin Flip\\nIf I flip a coin 50 times in a row\\nThat outcome of heads and tails is incredibly rare such that it probably never happened before in the history of the universe, but there is no significance to that outcome it is purely random\\nIn order to prove that something is not just random, but by design there is a term known as Specified Complexity\\nSpecified complexity is when an event is not only statistically unlikely but the significance of that event occurring is also relevant\\nHere is an example\\u2026\\nI preemptively obtain a random series of 50 coin flips and am told that I am to flip a coin 50 times that unless I get this exact outcome of heads in tails in the exact order my life will be terminated. \\nSo to my amazement, I flip the coin and obtain that exact outcome and my life is spared. \\nIs it more likely that I just got really lucky or that the outcome of the coin flip was designed to give that outcome, or that perhaps I just lied and said that I got the same outcome? \\nThis event would posses specified complexity and point towards design\\nLicense Plate\\nHere is another example, a real one from my life\\nI was in college in a retail parking lot and see a car swerving around the corner driving faster than they should be in a public parking lot. \\nI look at the plate and see it says CATHUGS \\nI am thinking I am in California\\nThe car does seem a little beat down and could be driven by a thug\\nSo assume that the plate was not randomly generated by the DMV as it the letters are not just random but point towards'