Randal regarding your first paragraph above what articulett saidnnRegarding you second paragraph you really dont see what you are forced to do here do you Its what I see you arguing on your blog and in our cowritten book You stretch things to suit what you believe You use improbabilities to conclude a probability You do this all of the time almost in every case nnTake my speculation that most nonbelievers especially former Christians have heard many of the nthings you say in this book but most Christians have not considered the nthings I say in it thats how I meant the sentence per aritculettnnFirst off when it comes to FORMER CHRISTIANS we were scared to death to seriously doubt our faith We were scared because of the threat of hell if we get it wrong You probably do not understand this When the time comes for you to seriously doubt your faith you will understand it At that point you must be convinced your faith has almost no probability to it at all in order to reject it since that is thexa point where Pascals Wager has no more force on us So we investigated it thoroughly most of us The more educated we are in our faith then the more we must investigate it So its more likely what you have said in our book will be things most former Christians have considered beforennI have a mountain of anecdotal evidence for this as well Almost every Christian I have spoken to always learns something from me and I have learned little or nothing from them This scenario repeats itself every time I have a disunion with a Christian and can be seen from the responses to my blog over a six and a half year period I teach them They do not teach mennWhen it comes to NONBELIEVERS in general studies have shown that nonbelievers know more about the Bible than Christians Thats evidence baby The probability thereforexa that nonbelievers will not learn as much from you in our book is more likely than otherwisennSo these speculations of mine have evidence for them Evidence Thats what Im talking about here there and in our cowritten book You must skirt it at almost every step in order to believe nnAnd you provide some evidence that this is what you do here You compared the probabilities of my speculations with predicting how many people will get rained on next February th I did not say how many believers would learn more from me than you nor did I speculate how many skeptics would not learn as much from you I only speculated than MOST believers would learn more from me Most as defined as above  minimally You however compared my speculations with prediction of how many people would get rained on next February th Thats asking someone to specify a mathematical number of people who will get rained on You are also asking for the impossible or the near impossible since no one can predict what the weather will be like on one part of the planet seven months from now charitably assuming thats your comparison rather than asking someone to predict the number of people who will get rained on globally wnnahem there is absolutely NO comparative parity here at allnnThis is what I see you do all of the timennThe unfortunate thing is that I have to spend  minutes explaining this to your deluded mind Thats a waste of your mind in my opinion a waste of an otherwise bright mind who would never use it in like this in any other area of life except when it comes to your faithnnNot only that but I predict you are not done defending this utterly ignorant comparisonnnYou do realize that Ive stopped wasting so much time blogging because of Christan like you correct Your reasoning abilities when it comes to your faith is just that bad sorry I have no hopes of convincing you jsut as I have no hopes of convincing a leader in Scientology You cannot be argued out of your faith because you were never reasoned into it in the first placennThere is only hope for others