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Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes
butterfly effect?
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From earlier quotes: the idea that "anyone" something-or-other is true in a sense. The statistical effect of a single butterfly is negligible; presumably that means less than "noise" in any given model. Noise could be the echo of one's voice against a cliff. Sure, your voice excites the air. And sure, it hits the cliff and bounces back – so you can hear your echo. But even between two cliffs (or worse, in a cave) your voice is below any threshold required for a tornado to be generated. Butterflies' wings are far less energetic than that, so even less happens than when you shout out across echo point.
In the same way, if I open a vein and pour in some leprosy, yes, I could get leprosy. Otherwise the likelihood is so remote as to not be worth considering. It's there I suppose, much like the cumulative effect of rustling leaves echoing off a cliff: below the level of noise. Sneezing because I sniffed a rose someone had used as an ashtray, by way of contrast, is an actual possibility. No doubt next we'll be told a hybrid ˝ cigar ˝ rose virus is on the cards or ˝ monkey-pox ˝ the hives is looming. I've never seen anyone with the hives but the expression "going like a 1 armed paper hanger with the hives" gives a good approximation. Imagine if in addition to having the hives and 1 arm he was also ˝ monkey!
These secularists must think we were born yesterday.