Re: Pim and Russell - Food for Thought

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:49:36 -0600

At 09:25 PM 6/20/97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 07:06 PM 6/18/97 -0400, Pim wrote:
>>
>>Of course a correlation is not a causation. Perhaps criminals who are less
>>likely to repeat their mistakes are more likely to be involved in a prison
>>fellowship program ?
>>To use this as support of the transformative value of Christian worldview
>>requires a bit more evidence than a mere correlation.
>
>Wrong. Causation is proof.

Yes, but no causation was provided. That was what Pim was pointing
out.

>Correlation is probabilistic evidence. Jim
>cites other probabilistic evidence.

Not really. He just pointed out a few other apparent correlations
without any clear causative proof.

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2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2.