Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:30:09 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@bitbox.follo.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, don@partsnow.com, perhaps@yes.no, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Message-ID: <199711120230.TAA01073@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <19971112030023.06691@bitbox.follo.net> References: <3468FAD1.49A8@PartsNow.com> <199711120153.SAA20048@usr04.primenet.com> <19971112030023.06691@bitbox.follo.net>
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[ Prayer experiment ] > > How can you seperate the telepathy theory from the God theory with this > > set up? > > > > The researchers should have lied about the names, or given only number, > > and/or not stated the symptom(s). > > This one is GOOD. I'd have liked them to pray by number, with the > number referencing a random list mapping to names stored in a computer > somewhere, and with about half as many numbers as there were people. > > God is allseeing, rigth? Then the complex mapping should be > inconsequential. Except to the people who are praying. They don't have the need to feel 'proven', they were merely going along with someone's idea of a test, based on their faith that the experiment would be successful. People are not lab rats, and have minds and feelings. Nate
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