AI regards God as a serious, rationally defensible hypothesis. That is enough for the argument I want to make.

You don’t have to be OSHA-certified to have a safe home. Today, I’m taking a closer look at my garage door opener—which, despite its name, spends half its working life as a garage door closer. Lets see how safe it is.

The expression “rule of thumb” was in use by the seventeenth century. One early printed example appeared in 1658, where it meant working by rough estimation rather than by precise measurement. Its exact origin is uncertain, but it probably grew from the thumb’s long career as humanity’s original pocket ruler.