Friday, November 13, 2009

Intelligent Design

I came across this story tonight and it left me a bit awestruck. Granted, I'm already an Intelligent Design proponent. Granted, there's much more statistical, empirical proof for design than this simple illustration. But the story itself is compelling, even though the real odds for intelligent design are exponentially greater even than this.

Chicago: OrchestraHall

So here it is:

"Consider further the case of Artur Rubinstein. Imagine it's 1971 and you are at Orchestra Hall in Chicago listening to Rubinstein perform. As you listen to him perform Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 in C-Sharp Minor, you think to yourself, I know the man I'm listening to right now is a wonderful musician, but there's an outside possibility that he doesn't know the first thing about music and the he is just banging away at the piano haphazardly. The fact that Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody was cascading from Rubinstein's fingers would thus merely be a happy accident.