Comment by Atheist Exile on October 13, 2010 at 9:58am

I've got a bizarre coincidence for you.

I was watching Johnny Carson (back when he hosted the Tonight Show) with a couple of buddies. He had a comedian (I forget his name) on the guest chair. They started talking about words that sound funny. They tossed out a few examples like "dipstick", "dork", "twerp", etc.

This reminded me of when I was working as a valet at a discotheque. One night a Ford (I forget the model) drove up and I noticed that the chrome letters of the name, "FORD", had the first and last letters reversed, spelling "DORF" instead.

Anyway, I told my buddies about it and, no sooner had I completed the story when Johnny Carson, tossed out another funny-sounding word . . . DORF! As soon as he said, "Dorf", he gave a puzzled look and said, "That's not even a word. I don't know where I got that!"

LoL . . . we were pretty freaked out.

Comment by RockyTIJ on October 13, 2010 at 10:04am

If I recall correctly, about a million "events" happen to each and every one of us in a month. Therefore, a "one in a million" event should happen to each of us about once a month.

Naturally, there's no way to predict when or what it might be, but if it happens to coincide with a near tragedy--voila! An instant MIRACLE!

Comment by Jim Scotti on October 13, 2010 at 12:05pm

Most theists set their "miracle bar" way too low. Even the most likely of coincidences are labeled as miracles. To put the one in a million in another context, a one in a million event happens to more than 6,000 people.

Comment by Brent on October 13, 2010 at 1:28pm

An "act of god" trapped the miners. A feat of engineering saved them.

No faith nor miricles required

Comment by RockyTIJ on October 13, 2010 at 1:43pm

Excellent point, Brent.

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