Quote from james_bond_3rd:
No. Your inability to understand a point is truly amazing.
Do you know what is a "null hypothesis?" How does one infer that a certain hypothesis is valid? (hint: look at how drug companies conduct clinical trials).
Quote from jem:
Do you understand the need for random samples.
God is real but the Universe isn't because a movie is a real movie, but it isn't real really.Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
Easily answered from a particular point of view of many of an eastern way of thinking.
A movie is a real movie, but it is not real like the projector is real, or the one who filmed the movie, or the one showing the movie, etc.
Difference between what is on the screen, and what it took to get it on the screen...that which is just a projection is nothing more than a reflected image...just as what appears on the human mind is just a projected thought.
When the electricity goes off, the movie stops, but the projector itself, the screen and the movie director remain unchanged....
It is a real projection of what is on the movie reel, but it is just a projection, not the real thing...
Quote from james_bond_3rd:
LOL. Every post of yours makes you a bigger joke! Did you misunderstand the hint I gave you?
Statistics is used to discern patterns, random or not. One does not need random samples a priori. In clinical trials, random samples are needed to eliminate correlations to other factors not related to the drugs being tested. But that doesn't mean statistics can only be applied to random samples. If that were the case, how can one ever infer correlation?
Do you know what a null hypothesis is?
Quote from jem:
Stop playing games and admit you are mistaken.
Quote from jem:
Yes but that is besides the point. You have equated a truly random of event, coing flips to generals winning battles.
Quote from stu:
God is real but the Universe isn't because a movie is a real movie, but it isn't real really.
The projector is real, as is the one who filmed the movie, and the one showing the movie. Have I got this right?
So we go to see movies on things that are real, ( for jem's Firefox word re-speller setting - that will be 'reel' ) and when the electric goes out, the screen stays the same that is - real. but it doesn't does it. The movie has stopped.
That's unreal, even for you ZZzz.
So the thing about reality which makes God real but not the Universe is a 2bit down town flea palace which can't run a movie show.
Fat help. Let's see what Iam has. It can't be any worse than that. Can it?
Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
From the perspective of God and those who are enlightened by God, according to eastern thinking, there is in the final analysis no reality of duality, there is only unity with God, as God is everything, nothing is separate from God.