by yesferatu » Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:46 am
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Maybe I should just ask: in your world, does @#%$ not happen?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>In your world @#%$ does not happen to rag tag terrorists, but rather, from their perspective, the glorious benevolence of an invisible cloud being (their allah), or in your case, supreme luck, intervenes and keeps @#%$ <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>from</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> happening. <br>You're right though, one-offs do happen. In a set of like events, one-offs happen. Out of thousands of like events, an anomaly of a few (not hundreds) discretionary result-skewing events sometimes happen. So where is this set of like events in which this can be laid against as the exception that proves the rule? Oh, that set does not exist. We have to take it on faith that the one-off happened to happen on the first instance before the set was ever statistically created. And besides that insurmountable fact, again, the one-offs are one-offs by the randomness of a small number of quirky anomalies...a few. NOT hundreds.<br>But don't ruminate on that and let reason be applied through rigorous intuition. Go read your Popular Mechanics John McCain article and renew your subsription to faux-Skeptic magazine. <br><br><br><br><br> <br> <p></p><i></i>