Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:37:15 02/03/02
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On February 02, 2002 at 19:24:18, pavel wrote: >On February 02, 2002 at 18:49:58, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On February 02, 2002 at 00:59:52, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>All events have some randomness associated with them. A light switch -- we flip >>>it on and the light goes on (maybe). Maybe the switch goes bad (quite unlikely, >>>but I had it happen in my house). Maybe the bulb burns out or is burned out. >>>Maybe the power goes off right at that instant. Probably -- it goes on. But >>>before the event has occurred or not occurred we really don't know which it will >>>be (or something else altogether unplanned: There is no lightbulb in the >>>socket). >>> >>>Not only do I think that our events are not predetermined, I think that >>>(paraphrasing a wise saying): >>>"Unforseen circumstances happen to us all." >> >> >>Many of the people with whom I interact react to any low-probability event with >>statements like "that's proof that God exists!" or "that's a real miracle!" I >>sometimes say something like "since trillions of events occur every day, even >>one-in-a-billion events are not infrequent," but of course I am wasting my >>breath. Once a person is beyond a certain age, they are not likely (there I go >>again) to begin seeing things in a probabilistic way. > > >A-h! >I guess I am not old enough ;) > >pavs Can't be too _young_. The point was that most people become more-or-less permanently set in their basic views by young adulthood, after which they're unlikely to change.
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