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Penultimate Amazing
I'm not a structural engineer. However, when I see a sequence of plane hits building, causing significant structural damage and starting a massive fire, and shortly thereafter the building collapses, I don't have any difficulty at all believing that the impact, the fire, or a combination of the impact and fire caused the collapse. I may not know in detail how the impact and fire caused the collapse, but, absent convincing evidence to the contrary, I'm very confident that I know the cause.
When, more than eight years after the event, none of the advocates of alternative explanations have produced one shred of credible evidence to support the notion of explosives, thermite, or space beams, I can be very confident that the sensible default hypothesis is correct.
Similarly, I'm not a doctor, but if I drop a bowling ball on my foot, and that event is followed by pain, bruising and swelling in that foot, I can be pretty confident that the pain and swelling were caused by the bowling ball, not cancer, toxins in my food, or a rare tropical disease. I may not know in detail which components of my foot have been damaged, but I have a pretty good idea of the cause.
When, more than eight years after the event, none of the advocates of alternative explanations have produced one shred of credible evidence to support the notion of explosives, thermite, or space beams, I can be very confident that the sensible default hypothesis is correct.
Similarly, I'm not a doctor, but if I drop a bowling ball on my foot, and that event is followed by pain, bruising and swelling in that foot, I can be pretty confident that the pain and swelling were caused by the bowling ball, not cancer, toxins in my food, or a rare tropical disease. I may not know in detail which components of my foot have been damaged, but I have a pretty good idea of the cause.