Dogs And Monkeys On Typewriters

The obvious conclusion is that if millions of monkeys working gazillions of years cannot produce Shakespeare, the man himself could not produce Shakespeare picking words “randomly”. Intelligence is required. Both to write and comprehend. “Random” molecules bumping into one another isn’t enough to produce this.

How many monkeys, typing random letters, over how many years, would it take for them to write Shakespeare’s plays? 

Let’s put that in simple terms. Take all the monkeys that have ever existed on earth, and it would take more time than the entire existence of the universe.

This is why you can only take animal examples so far when drawing inferences about human behavior. The distance is so large as to be impossible to leap. This is also why it is unfair to hold dogs to human standards of behavior, intelligence, or understanding, and why many punishments dogs receive are unjustified and ineffective.

(HINT: DNA is even more complex than Shakespeare… just sayin’)

Plan accordingly.