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> Tut, tut, tut, Dick. Don't put words in anyone's mouth. YOU are the
> one making predictions with an unjustified air of total certainty.
It's only "unjustified" if you haven't examined all the evidence.
> Others have said that it's POSSIBLE. We (unlike some others) are
not
> couching our OPINIONS as FACTS. Neither your prediction, my
> prediction, or anyone else's predictions will EVER be FACTS, even
if
> subsequent events prove that one or more of those predictions was
> correct. That does NOT make those predictions, retroactively,
factual.
I see the point went right over your head. Try to understand what
OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE means.
> To help you understand this, my prediction that the New York Mets
will
> win the 2008 World Series isn't a FACT (even if I really really
really
> really think they will), and it STILL won't be a FACT even if they
DO
> win the World Series. Does that help you understand?
I understand that you are trying to compare two totally different
situations. One has OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE to back it up and the other
has a small chance of coming true. Santana never won a WS for the
Twins, but I did enjoy attending his personal best strikeout game
this past summer.
>
> As far as your theory---it ain't "accepted as fact", since some of
us
> disagree with you, and it the evidence ain't "overwhelming"
to
> support our contention that positive VP might soon become extinct,
> that being a logical extrapolation of all that's happened so far.
Soon is not the issue at hand. The statement was BY THE END OF THE
YEAR.
>
> If you feel very very very very certain that there will still be
> positive VP in Vegas by the end of the year, or this time next
year,
> or the year 2047, I say, bully! bully! I hope you're right!
However,
> there are a number of other things that people feel very very very
> very certain of, and turn out to be incorrect--so I take no
> consolation from your certainty.
Try to get your arms around what I stated. The Big Bang is considered
a FACT by cosmologists. Evolution is considered a FACT by
anthropologists, etal. There are many, many other examples but I'm
sure you will simply ignore them too.
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