It's the only thing Gee has going for him.
But rest assured, Shulem can kick his ass!
You know that, don't you?
Shulem
It's the only thing Gee has going for him.
You show him we don't need no stinking Idolatrous Gods around here! Kick his butt back to Egyptology 101!!!
Challenge accepted.Gee wrote: The odds of Joseph Smith guessing the names correctly is astronomical.
They're looking at the wrong set of odds. The actual question is "what are the odds that, after the fact, Gee can draw some tenuous connection between the four "egyptian" gods and something in the ancient middle east.aussieguy55 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 4:43 amStrange response to paper
Kyler Rasmussen on July 17, 2020 at 4:26 pm said:
Thanks for this Dr. Gee. Always refreshing to see people actually work through the math when going through this evidence.
That said, I’m not sure you’re entirely on the mark. You seem to be treating it as if the Book of Abraham referenced a single god with a name 10 syllables long. The probability of getting all four names right would work out a bit differently.
Elkenah = 3 syllables
p = 1 in (484*484*484)/2130
p = 1 in 53230 = .00001879
Mamackrah = 3 syllables
p = 1 in (484*484*484)/2130
p = 1 in 53230 = .00001879
Libnah = 2 syllables
p = 1 in (484*484)/2130
p = 1 in 110 = .009
Korash = 2 syllables
p = 1 in (484*484)/2130
p = 1 in 110 = .009
The overall probability would multiply those four together, resulting in a probability of p = 2.8 x 10^-14. Still astronomically small, but still billions of times more likely than your estimate would suggest.
I also wonder if there really are 484 different syllable combinations. It’d be interesting to run through the list of 2130 gods and see how many syllables are represented in that set.
Continue the excellent work!