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To: tacticalogic
Open-ended time frames are a good way to make predictions and insure you can never be proven wrong.

Specific exceptions are often used as a tool in misleading attempts to disprove a general occurrence.

As the physicists have noted for nearly a century, you take any radioactive isotope, and it is impossible to say with certainty that a particular atom of it will undergo the fission process, but collectively, you can predict with a great deal of accuracy that a certain number of them will.

14 posted on 06/04/2015 11:03:06 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp
As the physicists have noted for nearly a century, you take any radioactive isotope, and it is impossible to say with certainty that a particular atom of it will undergo the fission process, but collectively, you can predict with a great deal of accuracy that a certain number of them will.

That might be a valid analogy if you were actually making empirically verifiable predictions.

15 posted on 06/04/2015 11:14:48 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Your isotope analogy also suffers from failure to take into consideration that the atoms don’t die, so the prediction that eventually it’s bound to happen fails in every case where someone died before it did.


16 posted on 06/04/2015 11:30:02 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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