[quote]It's easy to throw a coffee cup into pieces (1), but the other way around, throwing the pieces back into a whole cup (2) is virtually impossible. But the latter isn't any harder than throwing a cup twice in exactly the same pieces scattered exactly in the same way (3).[/quote] Actually, 3 is easier than 2. With three, you could record the mathematics of the first throw and repeat it in the second throw. Difficult, yes. Virtually impossible, no. I'm not going to post anything terribly relevant (you can accuse me of being a cop-out/typical creationist/etcetera) so I'll just leave you with this fact for now: your opening analogy is faulty.