Red Sox win, Coulter steals, and the Pope isn't hip to gay marriage
First of all, congrats to the Red Sox for going into the All-Star break with the AL East.
Being an engineer, I know stuff about probability and other archane stuff that most Americans get glossy-eyed over. I don't know what the probability is that Ann Coulter conjured the same 20 plus words from a given article, or publication once might be....it has been said to be between 50 million and 100 million to one.
Let's use the worst case scenario for Annie.
Now, when you have multiple instances of the same variety of word usage, with each usage you multiply thusly: 100,000,000*100,000,000 or 10,000,000,000,000,000 to one.
For each ensuing duplicated passage, the probability that this is coincidence goes up 108...ad infinitum.
I don't expect Ann to understand this simple math, given that in her latest work(?), she attempts to disprove evolution. Not likely. Evolution is an established fact. The only real debate amongst evolutionary biologists and others with a working understanding of the subject matter is what mechanisms are involved.
Not too clever.
Finally, the Pontiff was in Spain where it has been reported that whilst 80 per-cent of the adult population considers themselves Catholic, only 42 per-cent profess to believing in God. Not surprisingly, Bene The Umpteenth denounced gay marriage, stating that marriage was a holy union between a priest and his choir boys.
Okay, so the choir boy bit isn't exactly factual, but I'm simply trying to conform to the level of public discourse in GWB's 'Murrika.
Being an engineer, I know stuff about probability and other archane stuff that most Americans get glossy-eyed over. I don't know what the probability is that Ann Coulter conjured the same 20 plus words from a given article, or publication once might be....it has been said to be between 50 million and 100 million to one.
Let's use the worst case scenario for Annie.
Now, when you have multiple instances of the same variety of word usage, with each usage you multiply thusly: 100,000,000*100,000,000 or 10,000,000,000,000,000 to one.
For each ensuing duplicated passage, the probability that this is coincidence goes up 108...ad infinitum.
I don't expect Ann to understand this simple math, given that in her latest work(?), she attempts to disprove evolution. Not likely. Evolution is an established fact. The only real debate amongst evolutionary biologists and others with a working understanding of the subject matter is what mechanisms are involved.
Not too clever.
Finally, the Pontiff was in Spain where it has been reported that whilst 80 per-cent of the adult population considers themselves Catholic, only 42 per-cent profess to believing in God. Not surprisingly, Bene The Umpteenth denounced gay marriage, stating that marriage was a holy union between a priest and his choir boys.
Okay, so the choir boy bit isn't exactly factual, but I'm simply trying to conform to the level of public discourse in GWB's 'Murrika.
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