RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 13, 2015 at 12:13 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2015 at 12:14 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 13, 2015 at 2:34 am)bob96 Wrote:(January 12, 2015 at 6:55 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Argument from Authority.
Fail.
Yes, but they are *your* authorities! The most brilliant minds in science believe in God. For many, it was science that changed their minds.
You obviously don't understand your fallacy. Their expertise is in their field. Citing them as support for any case outside their specialty is fallaciously asserting their authority in the case under question.
Never mind the fact that you're misrepresenting Einstein's beliefs altogether.
Color me shocked -- another dishonest argument from a Christian.
(January 13, 2015 at 3:49 am)bob96 Wrote:(January 12, 2015 at 5:28 pm)Esquilax Wrote: The former, though I've no doubt you'll go on to tell me it's the latter, based solely on the fact that you don't understand biology so well.
Either point of which would be entirely moot, given that "it's so complex, and I can't see how that would have happened naturally!" is still only evidence for your ignorance of how it could have happened naturally and not evidence for god.
Why would you say that all of the man-made things in New York city are more complex? We know precisely how everything works. Our understanding of the bacteria is very much incomplete. Dawkin's himself has acknowledged that there is not enough time in the Universe for it to have self assembled, blind mutation after blind mutation.
False, and probably deliberately so.
