(June 9, 2024 at 5:06 am)Paleophyte Wrote:(June 5, 2024 at 9:34 pm)Denzil99 Wrote: You could be right. I am probably prone to that. Thank you for your comment I appreciate it very much
Don't sweat it. It's a known defect in the human psyche that we all suffer along with a whole host of other cognitive biases. Our heads are messy places.
The short version is that unlikely coincidences crop up all the time. That's simply because you're exposed to millions of events every day, many of them incredibly improbable. The overwhelming majority of them are also incredibly mundane, so nobody ever notices them.
So if you want to check that there aren't any gods lurking don't ask for the unlikely. That'll just get you something that might be mistaken for Jesus on your toast or some equally laughable "miracle". Ask instead for the impossible, and what you get is a whole lot of amputees that don't spontaneously regenerate limbs.
'How hard to you have to pray to make water run uphill? Hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!' - Lazarus Long
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