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Buzsaw
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Message 31 of 549 (572624)
08-06-2010 8:59 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Straggler
08-05-2010 2:38 PM


Re: Has The Supernatural Hypothesis Failed?
Straggler writes:
Phenomenon to which the supernatural answer is still commonly advocated such as (but not limited to):
The creation of the universe.
Abiogenesis
Human belief in the existence of the supernatural
Religious experiences
Man's sense of morality
Whilst science can no more disprove the supernatural answer than it can prove the natural, have we now reached the point where the supernatural hypothesis can be legitimately dismissed as futile and desperately unlikely to bear any fruit as a means of explaining anything?
Has the supernatural hypothesis failed?
Or does continued advocacy of the supernatural as an explanation remain justified? If so on what basis?
Your watered down and simplistic rendition of the supernatural hypothes lacks many of the ramifications of the supernatural intelligent designer, the historical events and fulfilled Biblical prophecy.
Now I know that this is a science forum, but if you intend to bring the supernatural into this discussion and yet disallow supernatural evidence, you're whistling in the wind.
When science comes up with a sensible model for problems like, no outside of, no space and no time relative to the alleged singularity, I don't see how science can claim that the supernatural hypothesis has failed.
Science has labored incessantly to create useful life and so far, failed, yet science thinks without all of these high tech labs and apparatus being utilized by highly trained intelligent scientists, happenstance eventually achieved useful and indeed, immensely complex life, rife with intelligence, and it allegedly did it with no labs, no apparatus, and no intelligent planner or designer to get it up and going and emerging into billions of various complex systems.
So, no. The supernatural hypothes has not failed. It is very much alive and relevant.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

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Message 32 of 549 (572627)
08-06-2010 9:08 PM
Reply to: Message 30 by jar
08-06-2010 8:23 PM


Re: Multiverse Problems
But there are experiments going on now that will test many of the theories about other dimensions or even universes. So how is that not science?
As for mutiverses, they might begin with what to do with alleged no outside of and no before space and time/tme relative to our universe. The idea of multiverses shoots down all of these crucial aspects of the alleged singularity.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 38 of 549 (572648)
08-06-2010 9:58 PM
Reply to: Message 33 by jar
08-06-2010 9:12 PM


Re: Multiverse Problems
jar writes:
Buzsaw writes:
As for mutiverses, they might begin with what to do with alleged no outside of and no before space and time/tme relative to our universe.
I'm sorry but that makes absolutely no sense at all.
How can there be other universes if there's no outside of our own for space to exist? What could be between alleged multiverses other than more space? If there's space between stuff, it's all one universe, space being part and parcel of the universe.
There's no possible model for alleged multiverses nor does the possibility make any sense.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 44 of 549 (572778)
08-07-2010 3:13 PM
Reply to: Message 40 by onifre
08-07-2010 11:03 AM


Re: Defining terms
ONIFRE writes:
It's because our laws can vary to an infinite degree that we postulate the reasonable (???reasonable???:confused ........ an infinite amount of universes can spring up from these possible variations. ............
.......the laws in any universe that comes from a multi-verse system, would be a variation of the laws that govern ours. ......mathematically showing these possible variations, that can also describe conditions in another universe, is not only science, but the reason we came up with the theory to begin with. ...........
Science gaves us the multi-verse hypothesis, not faith, belief, or any other methodology. In no way can I see this suggesting something supernatural, unless, of course, someone is not familiar with the the science behind it and uses the terms like "multi-verse" and "extra dimensions" in the science fiction sense.
(paranthesis and embolding mine)
So now, listen up, sheeples. Here's how they do the science. Concoct up a mathmatical numbers game, ignore the observable laws of the universe and go with it for the multiple universe thingy. ABAKADABRA-DOO! IT'S SCIENCE!
Mind you; don't ever call it faith, because secularists, you know have no faith. Remember? THEY DO THE NUMBERS GAME SCIENCE

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 49 of 549 (572795)
08-07-2010 5:23 PM
Reply to: Message 48 by Straggler
08-07-2010 3:55 PM


Re: Defining terms
Straggler writes:
.........successfully predicting all manner of since observed physical phenomenon...........
Heh. You like that term, predicting when it comes to supporting the secularist premisis to the secularistic hypothesis. However when successful predictions of events are verified by history and present observations, secularists disallow them all.
Secularists are fine with discarding the observable laws of our universe so as to teach and propagate in academia. The likelihood of multiple universes defys the only observable laws we know, that of our universe.
Yet you deny that a tiny nation of people dispersed globally after nearly two thousand years, returning to become a nation, having not being integrated into the nationalities of the host nations, is significant. You have the audacity to deduce that the supernatural hypothesis has failed, all the while denying every bit of the evidence already posted in the EvC archives which is supportive to the supernatural hypothesis.
You secularists blatantly discard and deny the Exodus evidence cited, including aired videos, yet your secularist marine explorers decline to do their own research in the region so as to either debunk or verify the evidence presented.
If a jawbone or hipbone were discovered in the Nuweiba Aqaba depths which may contribute to the ToE, rest assured, their research ships and divers would be on it like piranha killer fish on a chunk of meat.
Edited by Buzsaw, : reword statements

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 50 of 549 (572796)
08-07-2010 5:38 PM
Reply to: Message 45 by DrJones*
08-07-2010 3:34 PM


Re: Defining terms
Dr Jones writes:
Please show us how the math is wrong Buz, show your work.
Jones, when the math defys the foundational laws of physics observable in our universe, count me out. I go with the observable laws, observable fulfilled predictions, verifiable historical records and data like that.
Magicians, hucksters, gamblers, extortionists and the like are more into numbers games.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 53 of 549 (572838)
08-07-2010 9:30 PM
Reply to: Message 52 by DrJones*
08-07-2010 8:46 PM


Re: Defining terms
Dr Jones writes:
Please describe just how the math defys the foundational laws of physics, show your work.
Because it appears that the math, which, as I understand what was alleged, is supportive to the multiple universe hypothesis which BB science ascribes to.
My response related to the claim that the laws of physics observed in our universe may not apply to other universes.
The problem still remains that more universes imply an outside of our universe and that there is a between universes. Imo, applying unknown laws of physics to explain that problem is even more absurd than explaining the supernatural hypothesis. There is a lot more sensible evidence for the a higher level of intelligence than that of humans than for the multiple uiverse claim.
If anything has failed, it's the multiple universe hypothesis; not the supernatural.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 71 of 549 (573118)
08-09-2010 10:29 PM
Reply to: Message 70 by Bikerman
08-09-2010 8:27 PM


Re: Defining terms
Bikerman writes:
Buzsaw writes:
The problem still remains that more universes imply an outside of our universe and that there is a between universes.
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No, that is simply a misunderstanding of basic physics. Your mind deals with 3-D visual information and you think that this extrapolates to the whole universe. A rather parochial and very limited viewpoint I'm afraid, that completely fails with even the basics of modern physics, let alone the more speculative areas of cosmology. I'm afraid you need a few years of study to even understand the questions, let alone pontificate about the implications.
Thanks, Bikerman, for responding in depth.
This site is a classic example of length secularist science goes to in order to circumvent intelligent design and the ultra-high intelligent creator who planned and desigened it all.
What I see in a read of this sight is, like a kid trying to explain his way out of the missing cookies in the cookie jar goes to great lenght to concoct up a believable aliby as to why cookies are missing in lieu of simply stating concisely why the cookies are missing.
When secular science can't come up with a logical and sensible reason for alibis to explain away intelligent design and the supernatural it's MO is to make their explanation so complicated, and mystical that even they (as is the case in this site) must talk in terms of probabilities, multiple possibilities, unrealistic dimensions, concocted up math, negative gravity effecting energy popping up from nothing and nonsense (I say nonsense because they as much as admit so) like that.
Yet they have the audacity to call multiverses and string theories when, in fact, there's no model or ability to predict from these alleged theories. Man, if a creationist dares alude to anything , I say anything, smacking of a higher intelligente capable of designing and creating complex things five or six members are right there to object.
I don't care if you have 4D, 10D or 11D layers, bubbles or whatever multiverses, like 3D, there is a separation known as a between. I'll never be convinced that I must toss out of my thinking all logic and reason so as to become scientific. I call that mysticism, magic, delusional and impossible.
I maintain that the supernatural has far less evidence of failure than these alleged theories which scientists argue, debate and for the most part have little understanding of themselves. Richard Feynman as much as admitted that he doesn't fully understand a lot of what he believes himself, including string theory.
The question was asked what lies between the multiverses in bubble theory. Professor Mbius replied that looking at the bubbles in three dimensions does not allow interpretation. String theory contains 10 dimensions and M-theory has 11. The stuff between multiverses exists in the higher dimensional theories. The three dimensional interpretation of a four dimensional hyper sphere begins with a point, then expands into a ball, then shrinks back down to a point and then disappears.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 83 of 549 (573173)
08-10-2010 9:10 AM
Reply to: Message 75 by Bikerman
08-10-2010 12:30 AM


Re: Defining terms
Bikerman writes:
Again this demonstrates that you don't understand the basics.
a) Science doesn't deal with the supernatural unless it is manifest in some way which can be tested. Those reported phenomena which can be tested have been tested and found to be illusion, invention or imagination.
That's because secular science has never made any attempt whatsoever to test supernatural phenomena. You, along with most secularists do not understand the basics of the supernatural phenomena which exists. You people chide me for not getting myself programmed into what you are convinced to be truth. By the same token, you appear to have a fobia about anything pertaining to the possibility of the supernatural.
Predictions of supernatural phenomena predicted thousands of years ago have been tested by fulfillement. On the otherhand predictions of science have only been ongoing to any significant extent for the past century. When they begin to fail, science simply changes modifys and updates with ever more complex hypotheses, understandable by relative few elites and defying the laws, dimensions and logic of what we observe and experience here in our universe.
b) What you seem to want is an explanation of physics which YOU can understand, without being prepared to do the bare minimum necessary - ie learn some basic maths.
By the same token I can argue that secular science wants an explanation of supernatural phenomenon, without being prepared to test and research evidence of supernatural phenomenon
Why do you think the universe should be simply explicable to someone who's only experience is on a small planet in a tiny corner of an unremarkable galaxy and who's brain was evolved to yell at apes about food and predators? Anything is complicated to those who are ignorant. The answer you seem to adopt is to wail that it cannot be so, because you don't understand it. Kids do the same thing quite a lot. The brighter ones learn that the problem is theirs, not the explanation's.
Heh! Why do you think that the only level of intelligence in the universe should be simply explicable relative to a tiny speck/planet in one of billions of galexies, each having billions of suns/stars?
For sure, we can agree that anything can be complicated to the ignorant. I regard your ignorance and that of most secularists equally as you regard mine relative to physics.
The question is has the supernatural hypothesis failed? Imo, most of the participants of this thread are not qualified to answer that question, having devoted insufficient time, experience and study in testing the phenomena.
Bikerman writes:
Buzsaw writes:
Yet they have the audacity to call multiverses and string theories when, in fact, there's no model or ability to predict from these alleged theories.
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There is both - a model (actually several) and quite a few predictions to be tested. Again the problem is that you won't understand either if you insist that it is translated into a language best suited to jabber about the parochial experiences of an evolved ape.
Do you mean models like the supposedly non-3D pancake like stack of disc shaped bubbles, etc? How is that a viable model for something non-3D, when the model depicted (like pancakes) is 3D?
Any models I have seen for the BB theory have been, in reality, 3D but physicists do the same thing. They flatten them all out to 2D or 4D, essenial making them flat illustrations on a piece of paper depicting what they believe in their heads; anything to obfuscate reality so as to educate secularize the sheeple.
Bikerman writes:
Buzsaw writes:
I don't care if you have 4D, 10D or 11D layers, bubbles or whatever multiverses, like 3D, there is a separation known as a between. I'll never be convinced that I must toss out of my thinking all logic and reason so as to become scientific. I call that mysticism, magic, delusional and impossible.
And thus speaks the ignoramus through history. What thinking and logic? You display very little of either. You don't care. Those 3 words sum it up. You don't really want to learn because you are frightened that:
a) You are not capable of understanding
b) It might shake your current worldview
It isn't new - we see the same attitude in all recorded history, from the persecution of Socrates in Plato's account of the trial, through the imposed ignorance of the medieval Church, and, today, in the blind refusal to accept basic science from the creationists.
Now, Bikerman, what applies to the goose applies to the gander. I've revised your allegation so as to apply it to why secularists think the supernatural phenomena has failed.
And thus speaks the ignoramus through history. What thinking and logic? You display very little of either. You don't care. Those 3 words sum it up. You don't really want to learn because you are frightened that:
a) You are not capable of understanding
b) It might shake your current worldview
c) It makes you accountable to a higher intlligence/power
It isn't new - we see the same attitude in all recorded history, from the persecution of Socrates in Plato's account of the trial, Genesis fall of man, effected by Satan's deception, through the imposed ignorance of the medieval Church public education, and in the blind refusal to accept basic logic and realistic observable laws of physics from the secularists.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 86 of 549 (573198)
08-10-2010 11:04 AM
Reply to: Message 84 by DrJones*
08-10-2010 10:11 AM


Re: Defining terms
Dr Jones writes:
Buz the problem is not that you don't beleive the science, but that you totally fail to understand it and then make up a strawman version.
Buz the problem is not that you don't beleive the science, but that you totally fail to understand it and then make up a strawman version.[/qs]
This is a blind assertion on your part. Dr. Jones. Please cite what in my response you think was a straman and why.
Of course I don't believe the science. I've articulated why; that it's too far removed from reality, just as you people assert that the supernatural phenomenon is too far removed from what you consider reality. You people require me to specify while so much of your stuff is blind asserted yada about how ignorant Buzsaw is and that Buzsaw refuses to buy into the secularistic interpretation of observations.
Your job is to specify things I've said about science methodology and to refute them in specificity. Your MO, to often, is to blindly assert that I have no understanding.

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Buzsaw
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Message 105 of 549 (573336)
08-10-2010 10:20 PM
Reply to: Message 103 by Bikerman
08-10-2010 4:32 PM


Re: Defining terms
Bikeman writes:
Buzsaw writes:
That's because secular science has never made any attempt whatsoever to test supernatural phenomena
Simply a lie.
First off, it would be nice if you understood and applied the difference between "You are lying" and "You are mistaken."
Perhaps, to be more accurate, I should not have said never, etc.
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Bikerman writes:
Buzsaw writes:
You, along with most secularists do not understand the basics of the supernatural phenomena which exists. You people chide me for not getting myself programmed into what you are convinced to be truth. By the same token, you appear to have a fobia about anything pertaining to the possibility of the supernatural.
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Again completely wrong. Any evidence of supernatural activity would be fantastic. It would open up whole new avenues of science. Scientists have been seriously studying parapsychology. miracles, psychic phenomena and various other 'supernatural' for centuries. The thing is - no evidence ever holds up.
In your list I see everything but Biblical stuff. I've long derided National Geographic's Robert Ballard and others because they appear to have no interest in falsifying or verifying the very significant evidence of the Exodus crossing site at Nuweiba Beach on the Gulf of Aqaba. There's a lot of debate on that in EvC's archives. Perhaps you would like to search in the archives or click my profile as it's in my profile history.
To a person, the science buffs here at EvC are not studied on the remarkable Biblica prophecies, though, like you, they make weak attempts to refute what I cite.
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Bikerman writes:
Buzsaw writes:
Predictions of supernatural phenomena predicted thousands of years ago have been tested by fulfillement.
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If you mean the bible then this is clearly nonsense. There are no predictions in the bible about Jesus that have any validity, since Jesus, if he actually existed, clearly new about the Tankah and probably knew most of it off by heart. Even then most of the 'predictions' are complete bunk. They couldn't even get his name straight, let alone where he would be born. So they invented some fable about a Roman census to try and fit with the prediction in the Tankah. Obvious invention (there was no such census and the idea that any Roman census involved men travelling to their place of birth was sheer fantasy).
You're revealing your ignorance relative to the messianic prophecies. The Jesus stuff is not the most imperially significant of the fulfilled prophecies relative to fulfilled predictions in the Biblical record. The dispersement and end time restoration of Israel, the messianic nation chosen by Jehovah is more imperical, for example so far as the here and now fulfillments.
The end time predictions relative to what is now the Islamic block of nations and their role as enemies of the restored nation of Israel is another. Those are just a few. I've been studiously into them and daily reading the Bible for over 60 years, since a teenager.
Bikerman writes:
No you can't because it is simply a lie.
The thing that you seem to be also ignorant of is that I know the bible - probably as well or better than you do. I can swap verses all day if you like - I was taught theology by monks for years.
I'm neither lying or mistaken. LOL on the theology that the monks teach. How much of the prophets did they apprise you on? If they knew and believed the Bible themselves, they would know that the Holy Father is in Heaven and not a sinful earth creature. Obviously they failed to apprise you on the messianic prophecies, etc.
The Bible is not a simple book. One never masters it totally. I'm still studiously at it as an Olympian works out for the high prize. I have not arrived, so to speak. I've learned some things Biblically related from secularist members like you over the years here.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

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Message 126 of 549 (573488)
08-11-2010 4:16 PM
Reply to: Message 117 by Bikerman
08-11-2010 2:14 PM


Bikerman writes:
Scientifically valid evidence will normally be empirical (not always) and will conform to the scientific method - ie it will be testable and properly documented. Specifically the evidence will not be dependant on inference
I don't think that criteria satisfies the theory of multiverses any more than it satisfies ,many aspects of the supernatural.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

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Message 256 of 549 (581845)
09-17-2010 8:14 PM
Reply to: Message 253 by Straggler
09-16-2010 7:30 AM


Re: Revelations
Straggler writes:
Every single time we confidently expect anything to act in accordance with natural laws we necessarily treat any supernatural alternative possibilities as unlikely to the point of completely irrelevant. Every single time we drop a pen, jump out of a window, drive a car, fly a plane, breed a dog, light a match, launch a rocket, sequence a genome, operate a particle accelerator or whatever else (from the everyday and mundane to the cutting edge) we implicitly assume that supernatural agents will not be (and have not been) overriding, manipulating or suspending the laws on which the expected behaviour of the world as we observe it operates. These are facts. And Bluejay’s analysis is in direct violation of these facts. Thus it is refuted.
I don't think Bluejay's concern is with real life, eye visible predictions like everyday mundane gravity stuff, etc. Perhaps it's problems like biogenesis, BB, no outside of, properties of space, progression of complexity and order, etc that he has in mind.
As to predictions, observations like real life in these modern times such as global gpvernment (UN) mark/number monetary technology, climate change, Mideast political phenomena relative to the restoration of Israel, etc, moral decay, rise of Islam nations against Israel, predicted thousands of years ago in the alleged designer's Holy Bible, are enough so as to afford an alternative explanation for observed phenomena than purely natural explanations.
As a matter of fact, the natural hypotheses are the Johnny-come-lately alternative ones, considering that nearly all human cultures in history have been religious, applying a supernatural perspective.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

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Message 259 of 549 (581876)
09-17-2010 9:34 PM
Reply to: Message 258 by barbara
09-17-2010 8:28 PM


Re: Revelations
barbara writes:
The word "supernatural" that is applied to things we do not understand loses this word definition when we do understand it. Supernatural, God, magical are words used that do not have a global agreed upon definition that has not been made official yet for lack of evidence.
Hi Barbara. What the word aludes to is phenomena indicative of a level of intelligence above that of human creatures. From a cosmological perspective, it is no more mysterious than other complex scientific perspectives acclaimed to have evidence
derived from mathmatical calculations.
But we do have supportive evidence for the supernatural hypothesis, whether or not secularists will acknowledge it when presented.
Which is more imperical: debatable predictions derived from quantum and string theory or historically verified fulfilled supernatural/higher intelligence predictions written thousands of years before the fact?
Based on real life, eyeball observations, order to chaos is the norm whereas chaos to order is not the norm. We can look at a highly complex city and confidently predict that, abandoned by working intelligent beings and left to itself, it will deterioriate into chaotic rubble in a relatively short time. Relative to evidence, this model is supportive to the supernatural ID hypothesis.
Edited by Buzsaw, : spelling

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
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