RE: God vs Big Bang- Are either correct?
September 12, 2014 at 11:20 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2014 at 11:21 am by Alex K.)
(September 12, 2014 at 11:00 am)Chas Wrote:(September 11, 2014 at 11:53 pm)Surgenator Wrote: Yes you have to be sure. Do you know when statiticians claim to be sure, at 95% confidence. Scientist make claims of discovery at 95% confidence.
Um, no. Medical trials are gauged at a 95% confidence level. Science is measured much more strictly.
In my field of high energy physics, exlusions of hypothetical models are usually announced at 95%, and discoveries at 99.99994%. Of course those are just conventions of language and mostly born from experience, there is nothing magical about these thresholds. Also, the naive statistical interpretation of these is usually wrong because systematic uncertainties mess everything up.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
