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In Christian apologetics, the argument from undesigned coincidences aims to support the historical reliability of the Bible.So named by J.J. Blunt, based on previous work by William Paley, [1] [2] an undesigned coincidence is said to have occurred when an account of one event in the Bible omits a piece or pieces of information which is filled in, seemingly coincidentally, by a different ...
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Usually, coincidences are chance events with underestimated probability. [3] An example is the birthday problem, which shows that the probability of two persons having the same birthday already exceeds 50% in a group of only 23 persons. [4] Generalizations of the birthday problem are a key tool used for mathematically modelling coincidences. [5]
Luck. Fate. Blessing. A glitch in the matrix. Or, if you’re more skeptical, just a coincidence.. It’s a phenomenon that, from a statistical perspective, is random and meaningless.
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Some quite famous coincidences weren’t even mentioned in this list. For example, the one about the writer Mark Twain and the comet. He was born on November 30, 1835, when Halley’s comet came ...
A coincidence is the occurrence of unrelated events in close proximity of space or time. Coincidence may also refer to: Coincidence, mathematics term for a point tow mappings' domains sharing an image point; see Coincidence point; Coincidence, scientific term for an instance of rays of light striking a surface at the same point and at the same time
Synchromysticism is the practice of attributing mystical or esoteric significance to coincidences. The word, a portmanteau of synchronicity and mysticism, was coined by Jake Kotze in August 2006. [1] Synchromysticism has been described as a phenomenon "existing on the fringe of areas already considered fringe". [1]