Junkyard tornado
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The junkyard tornado, sometimes known as Hoyle's fallacy, is a fallacious argument formulated by Fred Hoyle against Earth-based abiogenesis and in favor of panspermia. The junkyard tornado argument ha
A statue of Sir Fred Hoyle, the formulator of the junkyard tornado argument
Infinite monkey theorem
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The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys independently and at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the
While a monkey is used as a mechanism for the thought experiment, it would be unlikely to ever write Hamlet.
Thomas Huxley is sometimes misattributed with proposing a variant of the theory in his debates with Samuel Wilberforce.