2007-10-07 22:19:10 · 15 answers · asked by ? 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Are the goalposts really moving or are we just drinking more?
2007-10-07 23:31:32 · answer #1 · answered by sleepy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Miracles? Define a miracle. Someone survives a car accident that seems impossible to survive? Guess what, it is possible, just improbable. Miracles are really just people cherry picking data. Out of 10,000 instances you have a few that defy the odds. The people who claim miracles happen go and pick out those outliers. They are just statistics. Healings. Really? Are you talking about these guys who claim to heal people thru prayer? The ones who have been been shown to use various tricks to make people they are doing their work? Or are you referring to people who suddenly get better after a bad disease? The human body can heal itself. It is actually quite good at that. It can even heal after cancer. It usually does not have the chance but once again we are talking about a few cases out of tens of thousands. A few people can succeed against cancer or other diseases. Cherry picking these people is not evidence. Anecdotal evidence is not evidence. It is story telling and is usually not backed by much more than that. People can be fooled in many, many different ways. The human recollection of an event is kind of unreliable. Our memories are not stored like movies in our heads. We actually have to reconstruct them and we usually invent to fill in missing pieces. If the person was under strain or were a little unbalanced due to mental issues or drugs or alcohol then their memories of things will be very unreliable. Anecdotes are not accepted by science to be evidence for anything. That is why homeopathic medicine fails. People think it works because of the stories they have heard but when you actually test the stuff scientifically it fails. The bible itself? The bible is littered with errors and inconsistencies. Sure, there are some historical pieces here and there but that does not make the entire book true. The fantastic claims of the bible are not backed by evidence and in some cases contradict the actual evidence that is available. The bible cannot be relied upon as a source of evidence. This ties into archeology. Yes, there some real events, people, and places in the bible. And yes, archeology can back those up. However, that does not mean the entire book is real. When people say that evidence for a god or gods exist they usually do not understand what constitutes evidence. Everything you have mentioned have perfectly real world, rational explanations behind them that do not need a god. Either that or what you presented as evidence is too flawed to be relied upon.
2016-04-07 21:10:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time
2007-10-07 22:45:44 · answer #3 · answered by † Iríšh † 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gremlins
2007-10-07 22:21:44 · answer #4 · answered by Will 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh Gunslinger,
Kind of hard not to notice eh?
I can tell you it wasn't me
but I have noticed the change
It just keeps getting harder and harder
to make it to my goals
Maybe they'll stop moving for a moment so
I can get to at least one.........
2007-10-08 13:30:08 · answer #5 · answered by Andrea / Princess Bitchalot 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The woman with the silver bracelet.
2007-10-07 22:21:26 · answer #6 · answered by Max A 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
heck if they are going to keep doing it why don't they move then in the right way, so we can get some points?
2007-10-07 22:24:56 · answer #7 · answered by jennyforrich 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
bloody lame excuse for being a bad shooter
2007-10-07 22:24:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is that why my fave team has only won one game?
2007-10-07 22:25:18 · answer #9 · answered by Amanda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
never mind roland things happen
2007-10-07 22:31:01 · answer #10 · answered by ausblue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋