You are most certainly correct, which is why probabilities have such a big place in science. It is those same probabilities that go into the inspection of structures like bridges and dams to insure the probability of collapse does not approach certainty.

As most of us go through life we are constantly (if, for the most part, unconsciously) assessing probabilities. What is the probability the bridge is going to collapse as I walk across it? It will never be 0, but it will be some number approaching 0 for most of the times most of us cross bridges. Unfortunately, the probability did reach 1 on the recent collapse of the I-35 bridge across the Mississippi in Minnesota.

The uncertainties of life are factored in. No faith is necessary.

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Ya think? Wonder why that never occurred to me. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I think it just goes to show that, if god exists, he has a great sense of humor. Unfortunately, we are all the butt of his jokes.

Why else would he put the bulk of the world's most easily obtained oil under the sand of a host of nations inimical to our way of life?

Why else would he give his chosen people a small piece of land at the eastern end of the Mediterranean that is the only piece of land not sitting over a sea of oil?

Try SuperAntiSpyware. I run both that and Spybot once a week or so and they seem to keep the number of problems down. 99% of what they find are innocuous tracking cookies. It is the rare occasion when something harmful is located.

I don't consider it messing with people. The question is whether the phenomena exists or not. J. Alan Hynek tried to bring serious research tools to the study of something that a lot of people were seeing - or, at least, thought they were seeing.

I am unaware of any useful data from Hynek's work.

A good book from the skeptical side is Robert Schaffer's The UFO Verdict: Examining the Evidence.

The wife has a couple lantana plants growing here in Atlanta and they don't seem to need any special care. She cuts them back to the roots each winter and they pop back in the summer.

They are great for attracting butterflies.

There has been no evidence at all that UFOs loaded with high tech alien weaponry and barrels of pan galactic gargle blasters were NOT shipped out of the country before we invaded it.

I dunno, Dogman. I suspect some of them ARE flying.

It's all going to end in December when the Mayan long coun ends...

But glad you learned something new. It's a wasted day when you don't learn anything. T'is a fascinating universe in which we live!

I think asking who god is is a bit premature. It would first be nice to show god exists before getting personal by asking him who he is. If you can't show such a being exists, asking who becomes irrelevant.

Unless you're an astronomer. Astronomers like to use Julian date because the Julian day starts at noon. That way a night's observing run is not split between 2 different dates.

I thought we already went through this. The missing zero year (the calendar jumps from 1 BCE to 1 CE or, if you prefer, from 1 BC to 1 AD) was an arbitrary point selected by Dionysius Exiguus in the year 525. As the Wiki points out in the article on Anno Domini:

As I said, picked at random. From the same Wiki:


Effectively, Dionysius threw a dart at the Julian calendar and picked the year the dart hit as the starting date for his tables defining the date of Easter.

You seem to place a lot of significance in all this. Why?

Didn't think this new world order thing was going to go much further than fevered imagination.

Sorry, but I am under no obligation to support your fantasies. Do it or don't. Das macht mir nichts aus.