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   Al Klein to All   
   Re: Major Extinctions   
   01 Aug 07 00:07:25   
   
   XPost: talk.atheism, alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism   
   From: rukbat@pern.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:51:42 GMT, bdbryant@wherever.ur (Bobby Bryant)   
   wrote:   
      
   >Unless there's a reason to suppose that these events share a common   
   >cyclical cause, you're indulging in the gamblers' fallacy.   
      
   And we know that at least two of them don't - the K-T event and any   
   other extinction that didn't include a meteorite.  (Meteor strikes are   
   also virtually random - there's no connection between one and another,   
   especially when separated by 67 million years.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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