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To: Cicero

The probability of you ever winning the lottery [damn small] becomes unity once you have already won in a drawing. As it was said "we are witnessing certain type of processes because other types of processes occur without witnesses". This is THE drawback of probabilistic models.


63 posted on 12/28/2005 4:05:44 PM PST by GSlob
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To: GSlob

Again, your argument is circular. Of course, I don't deny that the universe is as it is. The question at issue is how it got this way.

Your analogy of the lottery only indicates that, let's say, out of 7 million entries, one person wins. Whether it's you or someone else, you can't get 7 million wins out of it.


138 posted on 12/28/2005 5:12:07 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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