Dear wwh:
I gather you're not arguing with me, since I didn't express any view one way or another about atheism. Since you mention it, though, and without expressing any view as to the existence or non-existence of God, the argument that the world did not arise by chance does not lead to the conclusion that it was created, particularly not through some external agency. Chance, or probability, I would say, is distinctly a part (oxymoron alert) of an *existing* universe. But that's just what I think.
As to all those monkeys, the fable implies that they would strike the keys randomly. If they did, it would at least be possible that they type up all of shakespeare --rather as attorneys sometimes do their briefs. It seems to me unlikely, however, that they *would* type randomly. And, incidentally, I've heard randomness is very difficult to generate.
