On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:46:12 +0100, Charles D. Bohne <spam@PasoSchweiz.de>
wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:01:06 +1300, Sir Gilligan Horry <GM@ga7rm5er.com>
wrote:

In the future even the men in white coats will say....

"you are crazy for not believing in intelligent life out there"

All beliefs are crazy.
You either know something - or you don't.

True.  But how does one take a belief and turn it into knowing something?

Simple

Hypothesis (belief) + evidence (something which can be weighed or measured)
= knowing something

Lots of repeatable evidence constitutes proof, up to 99.99%

There must always be a margin of error to leave room for change, which is
the addition of knowing.