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A question for Professor Richard Swinburne:
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| Nipawin - Sunday, May 12, 2002 - by: Mario deSantis | |
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The fragmented and rundown approach to comprehend our social world has been relegated in the last some twenty years to statistical gurus. We started to understand the faults of statistics when demented researchers at the Health Services Utilization and Research Commission of Saskatchewan (HSURC) produced misleading studies in the areas of population forecasts and health care. |
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In Saskatchewan, since 1993, health reform have been focused on "evidence based researches" as directed by Saskatchewan Health and the results of this statistical research conducted by HSURC required additional statistical research to support the findings of previous statistical research within the baseless architecture of the quasi-private Saskatchewan Health Information Network (SHIN) supported by the quasi-private foundation Canada Health Infoway Inc. in turn fraudulently supported by the federal government. So here is the 100% statistical direct connection: fraudulent governmental funding and arm length quasi-private evidence based statistical researches which needs additional statistical researches for their further evidential and conditional statistical research. |
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Our reflective and critical thinking democracies have been converted to instant democracies as implemented by statistical studies and related Gallup Polls. Research, politics, wars, economics, education, and you name it, everything has been wrapped up under the science of Statistics, and now we have Richard Swinburne, Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oxford University, telling us the ultimate and conditional truth of statistics: the probability of the Resurrection is a whopping 97%. Professor Swinburne and other evidentialist researchers ass-u-me that a belief is justified only when evidence can be found for it outside the believer's own mind. |
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I have a question for Professor Richard Swinburne: What is the conditional probability that God exists? Is it 97%? |
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| Note: this article was motivated by an e-mail I received yesterday from Timothy Shire, publisher of Ensign | |
| Pertinent articles published by Ensign | |
| Dr. Steven Lewis: Preaching the Gospel of Statistics at SAHO Convention by Mario deSantis, March 23, 2000 | |
| Taxpayers deserve an accounting by Sheila Fraser, General Auditor of Canada, National Post, May 9, 2002 | |
| So God's Really in the Details? By Emily Eakin, New York Times, May 11, 2002 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/11/arts/11GOD.html?todaysheadlines | |
| Telling the Truth About Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best, May 4, 2001 http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i34/34b00701.htm | |
| The Justification of Theism by Richard G. Swinburne, Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oxford University, Truth Journal http://www.leaderu.com/truth/3truth09.html | |
