When it comes to "Knowing" anything that relates living organizims, the best Science has come upith is +/_ 2 Standard Diviations. That is the Normal Curve application.

Plus and minus 2 Standard diviations covers 95.4% of the area of the curve, and one can improve it to Plus and minus 3 Stadrad diviation, which covers 99.7% of the Area of the curve...

If you have read the book by Gary Zukav, (which I am sure you have- called The Dancing Wu Li Masters), you come away with the understanding that nothing in UNIVERSE is "knowable" in absolute sense of the word.

In life, in the word of Captain Kirk when Enterprise was caught in gravitational pull of a balck hole and Spock was wroking on some equation to get them ot of there, you have to rely on you best guess and take action, instead of fretting over not knowing for certain.

DM took a year deciding if they wanted to get envolved wit th EDIG. They committed to the case in an unsual way by convincing themselves it had a 75% chance of success...

When they walked in the Court room they had improved the those odds to 95.4%. And by the time they got through the MH on Friday the number increased to a least 99.7%.

Now, do I KNOW how Judge Krieger is going to Rule?....NO...

What are the chances DM will WIN?...99.7%...

Those are darn good odds to me...

Gil...