To: general_re
Certainty is for freshman logic class. In the real world, we deal with the preponderance of the evidence, coupled with our inductive skills.
Some how this lack of certainty does not prevent people on this board to definitively state that evolution provides answers to everything.
I already discussed that. As I said, post hoc attempts to calculate the odds of singular events are worthless, and therefore nobody wastes much time trying...
Is that the reason? Being of suspicious nature, I assume that when certain data is not presented it is because it does not confirm author's assumption.
489 posted on
08/17/2004 5:25:38 PM PDT by
bluejay
To: bluejay
Some how this lack of certainty does not prevent people on this board to definitively state that evolution provides answers to everything. It answers the question of the diversity of life, and secondary questions that arise from thence - I haven't seen anyone claiming it describes "everything".
Being of suspicious nature, I assume that when certain data is not presented it is because it does not confirm author's assumption.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Likewise, sometimes the reason data isn't presented is because there's no data to present. It's really that simple.
494 posted on
08/17/2004 5:31:07 PM PDT by
general_re
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