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Old 03-August-2008, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Durnavich View Post
When science does provide that understanding, has it not merely found yet another correlation?
It may have found another correlation of sorts, but it has certainly not "merely" done that. The work your word "merely" is doing there is similar to the word "just" in the statement "evolution is just a theory". The real question is, can the kind of correlation you are alluding to be found from statistical analysis applied to the process of data mining? And if you think it can, then how do we understand correlation well enough to look for it?
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