Date: 15 September 2010 09:21
“In an attempt to determine the scientific significance of these prophetic fulfillments, a California mathematician, Peter Stoner, made an interesting experiment with one of his classes. Each member of the class was assigned a particular Messianic prophecy for study, with the purpose of determining the statistical chance that the particular event could have been predicted without supernatural inspiration.
The laws of mathematical probability
The laws of mathematical probability show that the probability of several chance occurrences, independent of each other, being accomplished simultaneously is the product of the probabilities of all the individual occurrences. Thus the probability of all these forty-eight prophecies being fulfilled simultaneously in one individual, the promised Messiah and Savior, was calculated as the product of all the separate probabilities.
Forty-eight prophecies
Stoner considers forty-eight prophecies and says, ‘we find the chance that any one man fulfilled all forty-eight prophecies to be 1 in 10157 [one in ten to the power 157] (a number that would be written as one, followed by 181 zeros). 1 in 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000.
All of which amounts to clear mathematical proof that the Scriptures must have been divinely inspired.”
Henry M. Morris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stoner
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Elmer Botha
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