If a thousand monkeys at a thousand keyboards could write Shakespeare eventually...?

Question

Why did it only take like five or six monkeys twenty years to write the Bible?

Answer 1

Its only 2 words. A monkey could do it

Answer 2

The Bible was written over a 1,600-year period. Its writers lived at different times and came from many walks of life. Some were farmers, fishermen, and shepherds. Others were prophets, judges, and kings. The Gospel writer Luke was a doctor. Despite the varied backgrounds of its writers, the Bible is harmonious from beginning to end.

Some forty men wrote the words contained in the Bible. But, the Bible “is inspired of God.” (2 Timothy 3:16) How? The Bible says: “Men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.” (2 Peter 1:21) To illustrate: A businessman might have a secretary write a letter. That letter contains the businessman’s thoughts and instructions. Hence, it is really his letter, not the secretary’s. In the same way, the Bible contains God’s message, not that of the men who wrote it down. Therefore, the entire Bible truthfully is “the word of God.” (1 Thessalonians 2:13)

There are possibly 6,000 manuscripts of all or portions of the Hebrew Scriptures (Or old Testament) today in various libraries. One of the oldest extant fragments containing Biblical passages is the Nash Papyrus, found in Egypt and preserved at Cambridge, England. Evidently part of an instructional collection, it is of the second or first century B.C.E. and consists of only four fragments of 24 lines of a pre-Masoretic text of the Ten Commandments and some verses of Deuteronomy, chapters 5 and 6. Since 1947 many Biblical and non-Biblical scrolls have been found in various areas W of the Dead Sea, and these are referred to generally as the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Bible is distinguished as having survived more violent controversy than any other book, hated as it is by many enemies.

The contents of the Bible reveals the past, explains the present, and foretells the future. The Bible Assures Us of God’s Love. The Bible reveals the knowledge of God, his purpose for creating the Earth, Mankind, explains why it is the way it is today, and is a practical guide for living.

So, why has the Bible been preserved? Why does more than 90% of the world’s population have a Bible?

There has to be a sound reason for this to have happened. Many have tried to do away with the Bible throughout history and failed. It is still here and affecting the lives of those who read it.

Is this not what we would expect of a book from God?

Answer 3

Its a million monkeys usually used as the analogy. And the idiot making the analogy did not understand statistics. Figure out how long it would take to write one page or about 300 words and you will soon discover how truly absurd it is. Actually sorry, I forgot, that would require you to actually think and reason and not just insult. I have this tendency of asking too much from people.



So assuming 27 types of characters (the alphabet plus a space), no punctuation needed, no capitalization needed, and 4 letters per word, it is approximately 10^2134 years and the universe is less than 10^10 years old. Oopsy daisy. Isn't amazing what intelligent thought can do in comparison with pure randomness.



Now our DNA holds 3.2 billion DNA pairs, meaning 4^3,200,000,000 possibilities, or more than 100,000,000 words of information. Probably why they made the comparison to the works of Shakepeare.



You can wave your hands at evolution all you want, but evolution just breaks things. It is quite clear evolution must be guided.

Answer 4

your monkeys could never accomplish this.



Not without some strict guidelines, limiters and controls.



And once you get into guidelines, limiters and controls, then you've inevitably crossed into the bounds of intelligence and design now haven't you?

___



p.s. the bible has approximately 40 authors who lived over the span of nearly 2000 years.



At least try to incorporate something that LOOKS like facts into your ignorance.

Answer 5

Did a monkey ask this question?

Answer 6

It must have been help from God!



That's it. We've found absolute proof of the Bibles legitimacy.

Answer 7

The Bible wasn't written by monkeys, you silly moose.

Answer 8

Shakespeare is more interesting and more morally sound than a random selection of myth and fable!

Answer 9

beware blasphemer that your smartness does not sit you down with he who can not be named

Answer 10

Ah you see, they were trying to write Hamlet though.