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To: ClearBlueSky

“No On really knows... that is tragic and unacceptable.”

But some things are more predictable than others. The tides are predictable, the sunrise and sunset are predictable, because the rotation of the Earth has been consistent for billions of years, and is unlikely to be different tomorrow or next week.

Weather is NOT consistent and therefore highly unpredictable. It’s not the scientists fault that some things in nature are random while others have a pattern.

I think the problem is the public’s absurd expectation that if scientists can accomplish amazing thing A, then they must be able to accomplish amazing thing B.

How many times have I heard the lamentation “they put a man on the moon but they can’t even [fill in the blank].”

Well, some things in nature have a repeating pattern and are predictable, others (like weather) don’t, and therefore are not.


2,200 posted on 09/09/2017 8:34:07 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: enumerated

THANK YOU!!!!!


2,206 posted on 09/09/2017 8:48:34 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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