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I love this cartoon from the New Yorker<\/em>. This is precisely the problem with predictive prophecy. If it were to be specific about the distant future, it would be incomprehensible. But because it consistently lacks such information, it is unimpressively vague. There is no way things could be otherwise, is there \u2013 regardless of whether you think predicting the future prophetically is possible?<\/p>\n

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I love this cartoon from the New Yorker. This is precisely the problem with predictive prophecy. If it were to be specific about the distant future, it would be incomprehensible. But because it consistently lacks such information, it is unimpressively vague. There is no way things could be otherwise, is there \u2013 regardless of whether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1542,1625,4611,7721,8080,9479,9480,9642,9643],"class_list":["post-26868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-candidate","tag-cartoon","tag-hilary-clinton","tag-moses","tag-new-yorker","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-prophecy","tag-prophet"],"yoast_head":"\nPredicting the Future<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I love this cartoon from the New Yorker. 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