On Friday, April 1, 2016 at 10:49:07 AM UTC-4, Jos Bergervoet wrote:

So why do people feel there is a paradox?!


You are correct in implying that this paradox cannot be satisfactorily
answered using theoretical models - far too much uncertainty in any
"conclusion".

The first assumption: that information is lost, for many people, comes
from variations on the following thought experiment. Throw an
encyclopedia into a black hole. What is the probability that one could
recover all the information exactly. Answer: either 0 or effectively
0.