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To: Lane3 who wrote (92644)	12/28/2004 7:35:17 PM
From: cosmicforce	of 793770

<And sloppy English usage complicates the problem.> I believe that! <g> I think there are two types of "belief" and there is a steep gradient between them, maybe even an asymptote. There are things I believe like it is unlikely that a fossil hippotamus will arise from Paleozoic sediments. Such a "belief" is really a probability assessment (in this case 99.99% or so that I'm sure of the *no hippo hypothesis*, as it were). And there are those beliefs someone would have about where their dead granny may be which presumably they wouldn't set odds on or would give a great many "nines" to ... These types of "belief" are VERY, VERY different. One is refutable at a low probablility (Darwin) and the other is not.

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