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Message 77 of 107 (650306)
01-29-2012 10:52 PM
Reply to: Message 75 by Buzsaw
01-29-2012 10:31 PM


Re: Debating Skeptics (Sometime A Venture In Futility
Buz, this is about as convincing as the Nostradamus predictions--they can be interpreted, after the fact, to apply to almost anything.
From Wiki:
Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus's quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power. Moreover, none of the sources listed offers any evidence that anyone has ever interpreted any of Nostradamus's quatrains specifically enough to allow a clear identification of any event in advance.
Or, in other words:
It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
L. Sprague de Camp

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

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