The fragmented and rundown approach to comprehend our social world has been relegated in the last some twenty years to our statistical gurus. We started to understand the faults of statistics when our demented researchers at the Health Services Utilization and Research Commission of Saskatchewan (HSURC) produced misleading studies in the areas of population forecasts and health care.

In Saskatchewan, since 1993, health reform have been focused on "evidence based researches" as directed by Saskatchewan Health and the results of these statistical researches conducted by HSURC require additional statistical researches to support the findings of previous statistical researches within the baseless architecture of the quasi-private Saskatchewan Health Information Network (SHIN) supported by the quasi-private foundation Canada Health Infoway Inc. in turn fraudulently supported by the federal government. So here is the 100 percent statistical direct connection: fraudulent governmental funding and arm length quasi-private evidence based statistical researches which needs additional statistical researches for their further evidential and conditional statistical researches.

Our reflective and critical thinking democracies have been converted to instant democracies as implemented by statistical studies and related Gallup Polls. Researches, politics, wars, economics, education, and you name it, everything has been wrapped up under the science of Statistics, and now we have Richard Swinburne, Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oxford University, telling us the ultimate and conditional truth of statistics: the probability of the Resurrection is a whopping 97 percent. Professor Swinburne and other evidentialist researchers ass-u-me that a belief is justified only when evidence can be found for it outside the believer's own mind.

I have a question for Professor Richard Swinburne: What is the conditional probability that God exist? Is it 97 percent?

References

Pertinent articles published by Ensign

Dr. Steven Lewis: Preaching the Gospel of Statistics at SAHO Convention by Mario deSantis, March 23, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000/desantis145/DrLewisSAHO.html

Taxpayers deserve an accounting by Sheila Fraser, General Auditor of Canada, National Post, May 9, 2002 http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20020509/169733.html&qs=sheila%20fraser

So God's Really in the Details? By Emily Eakin, New York Times, May 11, 2002 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/11/arts/11GOD.html?todaysheadlines

Telling the Truth About Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best, May 4, 2001 http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i34/34b00701.htm

The Justification of Theism by Richard G. Swinburne, Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oxford University, Truth Journal http://www.leaderu.com/truth/3truth09.html

Note: this article was motivated by an e-mail I received yesterday from Timothy Shire, publisher of Ensign