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SKAWF
please dont see this as an attack....
if you cant point to anything he said that was a lie,
and nor can you point to anything that is true.....
how can you be sure about what you think you know?
I don't see it as an attack, Steve. It is a very good question. I'm glad you asked.
The short answer is that I can't be sure. This is a consequence of my philosophy, "Question everything, dismiss nothing." You have to live with uncertainty to have any kind of integrity with such a philosophy. And we all know most people do not like uncertainty.
This concept, however, in not unknown in science. For example, we "know" there are electrons zipping around the nucleus of most atoms. Truth be told, we don't know it, but we strongly suspect it. A scientist can't tell you where that electron is exactly at any given moment, but he can describe with probabilities where it is most likely to be. But certainty? Forget it. The universe doesn't work that way. It turns out that I realized that I shouldn't either. The number of times I've been wrong about things was another clue supporting that realization. For example, the sociopathic con-artists that run this world had me fooled for a very long time.
Uncertainty doesn't stop me from pursuing truth. It just so happens that you can do a lot with probabilities, much more than you can do with certainties.