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1,150 posted on 03/02/2006 7:00:45 AM PST by Quark2005 (Confidence follows from consilience.)
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"The evidence is clear" is his mantra, however it is marked by an utter failure to say how the evidence actually backs up a global deluge, and by corollary how different things would look if his hypothetical global deluge hadn't occurred.


1,151 posted on 03/02/2006 7:05:58 AM PST by Thatcherite (More abrasive blackguard than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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I like your tagline. That's a good word:

\Con*sil"i*ence\, n. [con- + salire to leap.] Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.

The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. --Whewell.


1,153 posted on 03/02/2006 7:39:47 AM PST by phantomworker (It doesn’t matter what other people think or feel or say. “You are the only person who defines you.")
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To: Quark2005
Thread waning in comedic value placemarker

But WAIT!!

I'm BACK!

1,210 posted on 03/02/2006 11:39:33 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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