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To: tortoise
What are the odds of the Dover decision being written exactly as it was? Infinitesimal? Just changing a few words could have had the completely opposite result. Why, it is almost as if that outcome was the pre-ordained design of God.

Exactly. A posteriori probability estimates are always crap.

1,518 posted on 08/01/2006 5:19:32 PM PDT by balrog666 (Ignorance is never better than knowledge. - Enrico Fermi)
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1,519 posted on 08/01/2006 5:48:00 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: balrog666

Actually, they're mostly binary.


1,520 posted on 08/01/2006 8:16:25 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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