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To: hopespringseternal
This is what is called "pattern matching."

This is funny. You're so desperate to deny evolution that you have to denigrate pattern matching, one of our primary tools for figuring out how things work.

Scientist: "I have noticed that the air pressure drops before a storm. Perhaps we can use that to predict storms."
hopespringseternal: "You're just pattern matching."

Doctor: "Everybody who got sick drank from the same fountain!"
hopespringseternal: "Means nothing. Just a pattern."

226 posted on 06/01/2012 10:53:27 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
Scientist: "I have noticed that the air pressure drops before a storm. Perhaps we can use that to predict storms." hopespringseternal: "You're just pattern matching."

Now you are arguing like a child. Without a scientific explanation of the physics involved, noticing a pressure drop is only the beginning of a scientific explanation. Does the storm cause the pressure drop, or the pressure drop cause the storm? Sometimes the pressure drops and there is no storm. Noticing a pattern is the beginning of the work, not the end.

234 posted on 06/04/2012 1:26:40 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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