and that is the terminus of explanation. so rather than an infinite regress of causation, that entity is determinous of explanation. that is the god hypothesis. >>so there are a lot of smart people who believe that. >yes and a lot of smart people who don't. >>exactly. so it's one of those situations where you could pick sides but how do you know that you don't pick the wrong side? like why would you be more likely to be right than all of these other clever people who have thought about it for a long time? now normally when you have a situation like that, you should acknowledge that you don't really know where the answer lies. it seems to be that a similar thing should be done in this situation - that if you have experts on either side who have opposing views, and if the evidence seems insufficient to settle their quest, then you should be agnostic. you should maybe try to assign probabilities to it, but not hundred percent to one and zero to the other. there are two levels of reasoning that you can apply to this. so on the o

i believe everything has an explanation.re some things i've seen here that i've not been able to explain. >> i'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it. >>> correctional officers are well aware that some inmates pose a near constant threat and that many of them will be incarcerated until the day they die. but "lockup" crews have found that it might take more than death to keep some inmates down. >> i love a good ghost story. and anywhere i go that it looks like it has the potential, i'll always ask, do you have any ghosts around? in new mexico they had a lot at the old prison. >> when we shot at the penitentiary of new mexico, major dean lopez took us to the old main. a now abandoned building that used to be the heart of the prison before it was replaced with a state-of-the-art facility. >> this is where most of the murders from the riot took place, was this cell block right here. >> this was the site of a 1980 riot. they slaughtered 33 of their own. reminders are everywhere. >> an inmate got chopped up with an ax. what

and we had no explanation as to what that was.d they said that, you know, the unit's probably haunted. never can tell. there was no explanation for it. no earthquake. the inmates weren't complaining in the unit about the ground moving. there were no wild animals in there. i didn't bump it, he didn't bump it. no telling. >> there's been a history of other strange phenomena here as well. >> this is the san quentin dental clinic. back in approximately 1984 there was an inmate murdered here in this corner. late at night, our officers working in here have heard the same thing i've heard, footsteps walking in the floors above me right here. and i keep telling them that the guy that was killed here, the inmate, that's him still walking inhi

is it something natural or is there an earthly explanation? >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, bill weir and tonight, juju chang in new york city, this is "nightline," october 14th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm juju chang. tonight, we bring you a "nightline" investigation that affects millions of americans. it's one of the most popular pills on the market today, but our reporting suggests that using it can increase the risk of dangerous side effects that may even cause death in young, otherwise healthy patients. we begin with the story of a 234-year-old woman who is convinced that this drug is the reason she nearly died and ended up blind. hers is among the mounting claims that have prompted an fda

. >> perhaps an explanation? >> i would like a recess. that is my explanation. >> colleague, can do that without objection? >> he took sophie maxwell and they started walking down the hall, across the hall to room 200, the mayor's office. when it came down to it, bevan dufty said, after talking to the mayor, newsom made an argument as to why edwin lee should have the job. >> supervisor daly, having witnessed several progressives vote for a moderate saw the progress of dreams away. >> we ostensibly had a majority on the board of supervisors. we had an opportunity and we made the biggest fumble in san francisco political history. >> once it became clear that ed lee had the votes to win, nobody wanted to pull the trigger. so they stopped the meeting -- at midnight -- and decided to have another meeting that friday. at the end of the day, so many people had been put up for consideration, and here is the one person that had not and he ends up being the person who the board ends up with. that is a huge shock. >> when the board finally made thei

and the source is one explanation.ally strange is when you talk to dousers who do off-site dousing. in that case, what you're dealing with is a dowser can be any distance from a target and he or she is using a map and a pendulum to allegedly find the source of water. they're not even there at the site. so if that information is reliable, and i'm not saying it necessarily is, but if we take that into consideration, we're no longer in the realm of things like electromagnetism, we're more in the realm of psychic phenomenon. >> and at the end of the day, what is your explanation of the appetite for the paranormal, for the open space in the minds of people, in this case, they say, 75% of americans, but i think it's beyond our own country, to leave a space for the unknown? >> yes. well, my explanation for that is quite simply that the maps of reality that both mainstream science and most mainstream religions are giving people are not complete, or not even necessarily accurate in light of some of the data that comes out of th

others have a pink ribbon with no explanation. the group recently got the manufacturer of promise me pink per follow up to change nergd -- ingredients. pink cat liter, pink glazed doughnuts and pink buckets of kentucky fried dinner. so please, support the cause and give generously but read the fine print to make sure it's going to the cure or some other charity. >>> how one harford county school is making a difference by giving children with dyslexia the tools they ned to suck -- need to succeed. >>> what you buy at the store could soon have a standard seal of approval. >> it appears that police dusted for fingerprints. >> inside the home where baby lisa irwin was last seen and what they took out of their home. all that and more still ahead. >>> tonight we take a look at how one school is making a difference twee comes to students with dyslexia. educators at the highland school in bel air are working to help students learn successfully. sherrie job son has -- johnson has the story. >> reporter: the learning continues on this satur

president obama is demanding an explanation as to why the senate voted down his jobs bill for a second time. now, last night the senate rejected a smaller part of the president's plan. the vote was 50/50. ten votes shy of passing. now, every republican voted against it with two democrats and one independent shoots it down as well. joining me now is nbc's luke russert. explain all this. the democrats saying they're going to bring up another part of this bill that invests in roads, bridges and more. does this prove that it would be a lost cause? >> reporter: well, thomas, for the second time in ten days, president obama's jobs bill went down in the united states senate and what this showed us last night is that it's very much impossible for any kmoenlts of this bill to move forward. you would have thoft that $35 billion for teachers and firefighters would have resonated loudly within the senate chamber. that's what the white house thought. it didn't yesterday. republicans sticking to their guns that it's wasteful stimulus. this is not what president obama wanted to hear. he says, quote,

the fear is spreading out and that is the evidence of explanation. because the medical and scientific community does not provide an indefinite answer. there are so many levels of the explanations and people are consuming those. third, we live in an explanation of [inaudible] there are so many died once we cannot get scientific including waiting for the end of the world. so, these are

there's no explanation. to explanation of who he was. no explanation who the sculpture was. most people, i think, probably probably 1 out of 1,000 out of boston has no idea who he was. if they have any thought is that he built the sumner tunnel in boston which he did not. charles sumner went to paris because he wanted to attend lectures at the sorbonne. and he attended lectures of all kinds. and he took notes. he crammed in french before he started his lecture attendance and he became quite fluent in it and he took notes on everything. everything imaginable and one day he -- his mind began to strain a little because the professor was running on a little longer than he expected. so he began looking around at the other students in the hall. the hall is still there, by the way. and of there's close to 1,000 students in the hall and he noticed that the black students were treated as if everyone else. they talked the same as everyone else. they dressed the same as everyone else and they had the same ambitions that he had. and he wrote in his journal that night, i wonder if the wa

can you give me an explanation why it's not there? >> sure.lanation i gave you before. i don't know. there's approximately 40 lab reports in this file. hundreds of pieces of information in the reports and so forth. and that one, i would have felt important to get in the book. just did not for whatever reason. it just apparently was overlooked. >> why would the police want to fix a case on gabe ferris? what's the motive? >> gabe ferris' worst enemy is gabe ferris. he is abrasive, he's sharp tongued, he's got a hot temper and he can be annoying. and right off the bat, with detective walton, he basically skewered him, hung up the phone and within a few days, detective walton was down there in chicago arresting him, before the investigation was really even concluded. >> next, the defense argued if the jury couldn't believe the detective's word, neither could it believe the witnesses he turned up, including that jailhouse snitch who claimed ferris confessed to him. >>> the defense was set to wrap up the case, asking the jury a simple question. did

suddenly, he gives what sounds like a rational explanation for what he did what he did. >> reporter: in fact, dr. murray gives a complete time line of a restless night in michael jackson's bedroom. after his final rehearsal for his big show. ♪ what about flowering fields ♪ is there a time >> reporter: it's 1:00 a.m. murray says jackson showers, changes into his pajamas and is given a rubdown with a bleaching cream for his skin condition. by 2:00 a.m., he is complaining he cannot sleep and is given his first sedative. at around 3:00 a.m., another, different sedative. at around 4:30, more of the first sedative. the sun rises and still no sleep, so at 7:30, a repeat dose of the second sedative. and at 10:30 in the morning, nine hours without sleep, jackson is asking, no, begging for milk. at first, the police think dr. murray is actually talking about cow's milk. >> he said, "please, please, give me some milk so that i can sleep." >> hot milk or warm? >> it's a type of medicine. >> what kind? >> it's called propofol. >> reporter: he items police he gave michael jackson propofol for two

supervisor chu: thank you for the two explanation.'s go to the budget analyst report. >> madam chair, members of the committee, on page 7 on the report, we point out that it is shown on table 3. that is on page 7. the total proposed agreement amendments will result in a new total not to exceed amount of $97 million, an increase of his $17.2 million or 21.6% above the existing not to exceed amount. i would emphasize that all five of these agreements were awarded through a competitive process, and we are satisfied, based on the explanations provided by the puc, for the reasons for both the increased amounts as well as the time extension. on page 9 of our report, we point out that under file 11- 0875, the puc has proposed transferring responsibilities from

no other explanation. it is teresting that so early on debates with 9 people on the states have had such an impact. >> what really is interesting -- toook at romney, compared to the romney we saw four years ago he is a superb candidate. i agree he is bloodless. that is his problem in a general election. but you see the republin constituency going -- it is the flavor of the week. ey don't really like him. ey don't trust them. and they want somebody else and thats what it is all about. michele bachmann, cain, rick perry. maybe rick perry can come back. i am not raising anybody off. >> r republicans of th yeear are behaving like democrats. democrats have to be emotional. they have to get glandular before the support somebody -- whether it is s obama. more emotional. they have to love their candidate. republicans accept bob dole, george bush the first. but this time, watching the feverish pursuit of chris christie by sensible republicans in practical shoes they were like teeboppers, like justin bieber fans. >>

but some say what seems like a simple explanation may change after an investigation. inside the passenger cars, it did not feel minor. >> we were sitting in there in our seats and all of a sudden the impact. we didn't know what it was. >> reporter: passenger alton smith talked to ktvu in the moments after the impact. the train stopped at the station was the coast starlight with 137 passengers on board. >> we had a head on accident between two amtrak passenger trains. one of the train according to an amtrak representative ran a red signal. and they were probably traveling about 15 to 25 miles per hour. >> reporter: but other explanations might exist and the union representing railroad workers agree. >> it's very easy to blame the conductor or anyone involved. >> reporter: under certain conditions and with permission from dispatch trains can pass red signals at a slow speed instead of stopping. and he says other factors could come into play such as the switching or signal error. amtrak and the federal railroad administration are investigating. >> there is usually more t

rubio's explanation, such as it is, simply doesn't pass the sniff test. how does he survive this history? also, herman cain is against abortion rights. no, wait, he's for them. well, actually, he's for them and he's against them. or maybe it's the other way around. cain's self-contradictory positions and confounding explanations even have conservative republicans asking, how many do-overs does this guy get? and the republican presidential candidate democrat seems to like the most, jon huntsman, joins us here tonight, right here, to play "hardball." >>> let me finish tonight with the iraq war that we never should have fought. >>> we start with today's dramatic announcement, however, that all american troops will be out of iraq by the end of this year. patrick murphy is the first iraq war veteran to serve in the u.s. congress. and today he's a candidate for attorney general of pennsylvania. and michael hirsch is with "national journal." thank you, gentleman, for joining us. let's take a look at the president's comments today, and they begin to dovetail from

the explanation is what was the error and who made it. amtrak and the federal railroad administration is investigating. >> something went wrong here, unfortunately. >> reporter: this was a low speed impact. the railroad experts i talked to said it was fortunate that those trains hit nose to nose. one locomotive into another. had the trains been going at a higher speed, the damage could have been extensive. >>> the ceo of solyndra has stepped down. bryan harrison also stepped down as chairman of the board. the court will announce a chief officer to replace him. >>> a bay area assemblyman today outlined new legislation aimed at another pipeline explosion like last year's san bruno explosion. hill says the new law which he introduced will require pg & e and the public utilities commission to do more to protect the public. >> it is taking an explosion to motivation utilities to take action on something they already knew was a problem and should have been working to prevent and improve. >> reporter: the new law will require utilitys to pressur

no other explanation. it is so interesting that so early on, but the odds with nine people on the states have had such an impact -- debates with nine people on the stage have had an impact. >> romney, compared to four years ago, he is a superb candidate. i believe it -- agree that he is bloodless, and that is his problem in the general election. but you see the republican constituencies -- it is the flavor of the week. they don't really like him. they don't trust them and they want somebody else. michele bachmann, cain, perry. maybe perry can come back. i did not write anybody off. >> hypothetical -- republicans are behaving like democrats. democrats have to be a low -- emotional, they have to be glandular before they support somebody. whether it is obama -- emotional. they have to love their candid. republicans accept bob dole, george bush the first. this time, watching the feverish pursuit of chris christie by sensible republicans and practical shoes, they were light justin bieber fans. >> that is becaus

territory well the turkey is not that small either so our our reaction is please give us a good explanation why certain countries are considered as good once and certain countries are considered as bad ones and who is to take that decision and suddenly we discover that this decision is taken on the very unplanned sprint grounds by bureaucrats not politicians and by people who are hired who has court who have contracts who do not represent countries or political parties or innocence in person no i mean people in the bureau of democratic institutions or do you see or would you reaches the major observation body in the you know scene area and suddenly we cannot find this great theater we cannot get a good explanation of the you are to be obscured by this number of serious for these or that reason and this is not good and this is why we take a certain position but i will confirm to you the mentor assembly of the council you will send the largest possible delegation to russia the parliamentary assembly of all we see you will send the largest possible delegation to russia and we have reached an a

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maybe right from that beginning is the explanation of the part of the problem we are discussing here. maybe those kids decided later that they wanted a in high school or in college or in university. only 22% of kids in mexico today are attending universities. 78% or not -- are not. they do not have that university. in the curia, aged 2% of -- korea, 83% of kids attend university. we must think about it. there is one organization, an ngo in san diego, california, which dedicates its efforts through the president, which is this kid named chris, who was a gang member, who was a criminal, who was a drug addict. he fell from a horse and reacted and decided to get out of that role and found this organization. he dedicated his life to pulling out kids who are in trouble kids accept that. if they have the opportunity, they will happily change what they are doing to something that will be much better for them, their happiness, or their future. mexico is in between. we are paying that kind of price. we are paying the price of 35% decrease in investment. we are paying the price in reductions in

he's his explanation for that run in 2009. >> my mom went back with my sister and brother to take carestayed behind working. >> a political reporter for the miami herald. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having us. >> going back to cuba to make a new life and going back to treat an ailing family member as we've been told happened in 1961 are two different things, aren't they? >> yeah, they are different. rubio folksç argue that while they are different they are not in contrast. there's some nuans that they are playing with, the fact we're having this discussion is not the discussion he would prefer we have. >> is he responding at all to the new reports out right now or staying quiet about it all? >> well, i've spoken to his people about it and alex of the "st. peters burg times" he spoke to rubio about this and gauged his differences and tried to get his explanations. and the explanation he gave, well, there are a variety of reasons that leave to come to the united states for a better life. but in the back of their mind they always wanted to return to cuba. when he went back to cu