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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: The Likelihood of Existence
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 11:37:57 EST
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> Remember the joke about the man being hauled away by airport security for
> bringing a bomb on board an airplane because the probability of TWO bombs on
> board being vanishingly small?  Probability is most properly used when talking
> about the unknown.  The probability that the universe exists is 1 (certainty),
> because the universe does exist (metaphysics aside).
> 
> Similarly, the likelyhood that God exists is also 1. :-)  [BRENGLE]

Usually, a ":-)" follows something funny.  Frankly, I find the fact that
someone would make a statement like this (and claim it to be cute) to be
quite sad.
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