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To: koan who wrote (784097)	5/9/2014 5:34:59 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Taro Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577900

>> Apples and Oranges and a stupid argument. It most certainly is not apples and oranges. It is precisely the same thing: You are ignoring the science in favor of consensus -- the very thing you are constantly railing against. >> I am not going to waste my time on nonsense. This is your history. When faced with difficult questions you cannot answer with any consistency, you deem those questions to be nonsense. >> If you understood half of what you post you would notice I put it in terms of "probability" which is exactly what any good scientist would say. When you accept a view because 97% of scientists hold that view, that is NOT probability and bears no connection with probability. It is a descriptive statistic, not an inferential one. If you want to say there is a 90% probability the 97% (if there IS a 97%) is correct, that's a different thing. I have not seen any post of yours do that. But I can assure that whatever it is, it doesn't approach the 100% probability the 97% are right. There is simply no rational basis for such a conclusion. History is littered with the dead carcasses of ideas that 97% of this demographic or the other believed was correct. It takes a special kind of scientific ignoramus to claim anyone is right about anything because 97% of some arbitrary demographic agrees. If you can't back up the claim you ought to stop posting it. How you refuse to address that question on the basis that it isn't the same thing just suggests some kind of cognitive failure on your part.

To: koan who wrote (784097)	5/9/2014 5:48:01 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1577900

Apple and oranges, carrots, eggs or coffee> A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me, what do you see?" "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," replied her daughter. The mother asked her daughter to feel the carrots, who did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, the young woman observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked her to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter asked, "What does it mean, mother?" Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity--boiling water--but each had reacted differently. "Which are you?" the mother asked. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity, wilts and become soft and loses strength? Are you the egg that appears not to change but whose heart is hardened? Or are you the coffee bean that changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, your very essence will change your environment for the better, making it sweet and palatable." >author unknown