Jeremiah

If you are mixing the vat then there is a probability you'll have pockets of same color marbles. We can put marbles in a jar and mix them all about an...

If the vat is the same size of the jar, but vats are not the same size as jars. Vats are typically much bigger than jars. At any rate, it is sounds mo...

Not really; there is no system that could account for this: " They all converge and pour into a large vat where the marbles are mixed together in a to...

Personally, I would like to know the source of his information and I would not mind seeing the math, as I feel we may not be getting a fair representa...

I am sorry, but if you have randomization then you are going to have deviation. There will be a normal distribution which will be based on proportion ...

The fact that he does not know the difference between probability and statistics is something of a concern.

We are not really talking about statistic, we are talking about probability. While statistics does incorporate probability mathematics, it itself is a...

Now what happens when we make the jar bigger? Every time we increase the size of the jar the probability gets smaller and smaller. So if we keep incre...

So if we have 5 favorable combinations out of a total of 153,478,146 possible combinations (assuming it is a standard size mason jar holding 115 marbl...

As long as the proportion of marbles is the same and each color has a fair and equal chance of dropping into the jar, then filling more jars would not...

The chance of winning the Power Ball Lottery is something like one in 175 million, and it still happens.

" It's to the degree that philosophy deals with precisely this 'wider' subject matter that I call it a poor - or maybe rather limited - philosophical ...

"One of the advantages in thinking of randomness in terms of equipotential is that is allows us to bypass many of the tricky debates about causality i...

The more I have been thinking about this, the more I have to agree with your statement here: "Conversely, 'non-randomness', or order, would be the cul...

Yep, as I don't care if you are mistake. Feel free to be as wrong as you like.

"Sorry to be so logical about this." Is that what you are calling it?

"OK, well you can make it clearer exactly what your ontic commitments are when you say stuff like..." Sure it is right at the start: "For all we know"...

Humans are part of nature so if they do, then nature does. "So you are making the standard Laplacian complaint that, in principle, complete knowledge ...

And if you take enough of them you'll develop superpowers.

"Altered states of mind" is an euphemism to make drugs that inhibit your cognitive functions sound better than they actually are. You mind is not "alt...

But there are various variables that influences the number it rolls, which we simply are unable to see. We assume symmetry, but how precise is that sy...

"Sometimes a single word may describe an entire book" That is a description; not an explanation. "Can you not express your views in a paragraph or so?...

"what is your standard for truth and meaningfulness" You want me to type out a book? I don't really think I could sufficiently answer that question on...

There is a grain of truth in every vague ill-defined statement. For example: It is best in the winter.

Several religious groups are extremely dogmatic. I don't think you can single out science or philosophy on this one.

Yes, as we all know religion is never dogmatic.

"few seem to be satisfied with the answer" Probably because they are empty phrases without any real meaning. I think you just say things because you l...

So then you see no difference between religion and philosophy?

How so?

Thanks for the link, Bitter Crank. I will read that, and in fact I was trying to find something more authoritative.

I see a subject, verb and direct object.

Can you seriously not see the question in the OP?

I am sorry, but do you really not understand the question?

I don't think your statement is accurate. I think the main difference between the two is that philosophy is grounded in human wisdom, while religion i...

"Theist are not much better in my experience" Of course, people are people are people are people.

I shouldn't be, but it is. There is a clear us vs. them mentality divided along the lines of believers and non-believers.

I think you are clearly bias. I don't even believe in gods and I consider your argument absurd.

Theist are people; theism is the belief in god. It is one thing to say theism is not rational, but to say theist are not rational is to say anyone who...

I am sure you have many irrational beliefs. Like the idea that theist cannot be rational. Try thinking about what you said.

""Rational Theist" seems to be a contradiction in terms." Are you seriously suggesting that a theist cannot be rational?

I was born in September, so I still have a bit of time before the new year rolls in.

This is the crossroad I have come to so far: If the experience shapes the belief (or "interpretation") the experience would be accessible to all; howe...

I stared this same thread in a religious forums if anyone wants to read their responses: https://www.religiousforums.com/threads/rational-theist-spiri...

Well, you have told me what other people think, but what do you think?

That is not true at all. "The scope of any inference is constrained based on whether there is a random sample (RS) and/or random assignment (RA). Rand...

5:09 AM no sleep, ugh.

I am more than sure that would be a waste of my time, as I don't think you really care what I have to say.

Yes; you are just failing to see the connection.

This thread was resolved by m-theory on the fourth post.

Or I can just move on and find someone that doesn't need everything explained to them.